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Arthur P. Mange Photograph Collection, 1965-2010.

Arthur P. Mange taught in the Biology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst for 31 years before retiring in 1995. A co-author of numerous works in human genetics, Mange served on the chair of the Conservation Committee in Amherst, and currently serves on the Burnett Gallery Committee. In 1983, his New England images were featured in Across the Valley (from Cummington to New Salem) held at the Burnett Gallery. This exhibition was followed at the Hitchcock Center in 1984 with Delight in Familiar Forms (celebrating some well-known plants and animals), with Ring Bell to Admit Bird at the Jones Library and Net Prophet at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. Architectural Sights — Big and Small, Mange’s most recent show (2002), appeared at the Burnett Gallery. In addition to exhibitions, Mange has also donated collections for fund-raising auctions at New York University, the Cooley Dickinson Hospital, the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, the Amherst Historical Society, Jones Library, and the Amherst Community Arts Center.

His photographic collection spans more than half a century of subjects reflecting his varied interests in animals, plants, our region, gravestones, what he calls “whimsical signs,” and attention-grabbing shadows.

Background on Arthur Mange

Arthur Mange joined the Zoology Department (later the Biology Department) at the University of Massachusetts from the Midwest in 1964. He taught primarily genetics and with his wife, Elaine, co-authored several award-winning college textbooks of human genetics. Following retirement in 1997, he served on a number of committees in Amherst, including chair of the Conservation Commission, and currently serves on the Committee for the Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library in Amherst. Mange is a member of the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, whose members are dedicated to fine art photography. This group maintains rotating exhibits at the Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Bay State Hospital in Springfield, and the Nashawannuck Gallery in Easthampton.

For over half a century, Mange has taken thousands of black and white photographs of varied subjects. The pictures are from many places around the world, with about half of them from New England and the East coast. Like many photographers, Mange tries to present interesting (if possible unusual or artful), real-life images with nice composition, form, texture, and resolution. They faithfully record things that have caught his eye along the way.

Mange has participated in a score of solo or group photo shows at hospitals, libraries, banks, and other sites in Amherst, Northampton, Pelham, Hadley, Leverett, and Southampton. The subject of these shows have included mysterious images including close-ups, gravestones, plants and animals, architecture, local sights, windows, pictures taken looking down, whimsical signs, and travel pictures.

Solo and Two-Person Shows

Across the Valley (from Cummington to New Salem), March 1983. Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library, Amherst.

Delight in Familiar Forms (celebrating some well-known plants and animals, October 1984. Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Amherst.

Guessing Game (Guess at the subject before looking at the label), June 2007. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Main Street, Florence.

Photographs of Norway from two trips: 1963 and 2008, March and April 2009. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Triangle Street, Amherst.

Gravestones and Memorials, September and October 2010. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Triangle Street, Amherst.

Contents of Collection

Arthur Mange’s collection of photographs consists of 339 images taken from 1965 to 2010. His subjects vary widely, from scenes around New England and New York City to scenes captured more locally from Amherst and Hadley to New Salem. Common themes include studies of nature, buildings, patterns, whimsical signs, attention-grabbing shadows, and gravestones.

Mange has used a number of single-lens reflex cameras over the years and 35-mm black and white film on multi-grade lustre-surface RC papers, with harldy any alterations except cropping and burning some unwanted highlighted areas. As of 2011, Mange has approximately 35,000 35-mm negatives of his work; from these he has printed around 2,500.

Inventory of Collection

Snow on sumac, 43 Canton Ave.

1965

65A-08

Keywords:Climate; winter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

1964-1965 was our first winter in Amherst. It had been a lot colder and snowier in the upper Midwest from whence we came.

Yellow pond lily pinheads

1967

67G-05

Keywords: Plant, water.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

For five summers (1966-1970), we rented for several weeks a funky cottage on Stinson Lake in the White Mountains. Grandparents, parents, kids, and guests all slept on one screened porch.

“Ebenezer” and “Rachel Currier”

1967

67I-02

Keywords: Gravestone, names.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

This graveyard was not kept up at the time, but when we visited this spot in 2002, a local family had taken upon itself the task of cleaning it up and making it less photogenic.

Spinulose fern with shadows (view A)

1968

68C-20

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

The sun-dappled woods around Stinson Lake were a delight.

Worked wooden puzzle (reverse side)

1968

68E-31

Keywords: Pattern, puzzle.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

The deceased husband of the woman who rented us the Stinson Lake cottage had loved to make these intricate plywood jigsaw puzzles, which were available to renters. The puzzle is seen from the back side.

Elaine and kids framed by barn beams

1968

68G-20

Keywords: Family; Elaine, Jennifer, Steven, Paul.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

This shot at an abandoned barn is one of our favorite family pictures in which each person expresses his or her own personality: From the upper left, Jennifer is a bit bored; Steven ponders the meaning of life; Paul hams it up; Mother is very pleased.

Frog on boat gunnel [circular mask]

1968

68H-20A

Keywords: Animal, frog

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

This animal with the big round ear posed on a small pond above Stinson Lake. The boat just seemed to be there for general use. With me at the time was Stan Moss (Psychology Department) who was fishing from the shore.

Three moths on screen

1968

68P-14

Keywords: Animal, moth

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

On our rented cabin on the shores of Stinson Lake.

With lace curtain background

1968

68P-19

Keywords: Animal, spider.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

The spider is on the sill outside; the curtain is inside.

Spinulose with strong shadows

1968

68P-32

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

Finding a photogenic plant in the sun was always a special happening.

Red maple sapling

1968

68P-34

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

I couldn’t get enough of sunlight playing on the undergrowth.

Cinnamon fern with rain droplets

1969

69I-31A

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

After a rain was always a favorite time to wander around.

Raindrops on Pond, Arrowhead

1973

73E-18A

Keywords: Pattern, cirlces.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Just as it started to rain in Arnold Arboretum.

Nasturtium with raindrop, 160 Gray St.

1973

73R-01

Keywords: Plant, grass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Gardeners know that nasturtium thrives on neglect – here in our front yard. Again, I am wandering around after a rain.

Bottle [1] at Sandwich Glass Museum

1973

73S-14

Keywords: Arts, musuem.

Location: Sandwich, Massachusettes.

This bottle of Sandwich Glass sat on a shelf against a window.

Bottle [2] at Sandwich Glass Museum

1973

73S-15

Keywords: Arts, musuem.

Location: Sandwich, Massachusettes.

As for 73S-14, this bottle was lit just by sunlight through the window.

Cattails along Tan Brook, near high school

1975

75A-13

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Tan Brook used to meander through the cow pasture where the Amherst Middle School now stands. The stream makes a 100-yard above- ground appearance behind the Regional High School. Then on Triangle Street there is a curious sign that says “Tan Brook,” which may or may not refer to a little ditch by the west side of the road.

Ithamar Conkey House, Main St. (view C)

1975

75K-37

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Mr. Conkey (1823-1875), a lawyer, was moderator of Amherst Town Meeting for a record-setting 26 years. He founded Amherst Savings Bank, and was active in the Ornamental Tree Association, which planted many trees on the Town Common. In 1975 the very large Victorian house was occupied by just one elderly woman. It is now spruced up and divided into offices.

Marginal shield fern & shadow

1975

75P-24

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Like the undergrowth at Stinson Lake, this fern occupied a small sunny spot in the woods. We were on a boat trip sponsored by Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Facility. Although I have been known to move a rock or bend a stem for photographic purposes, this scene is 100% natural.

Sun-slash in Gardner Museum

1976

76F-26

Keywords: Building, museum

Location:Boston, Massachusettes.

The woman seated on the upper floor is a nice point of interest.

“Charles Boatel” with plastic creature

1976

76H-21

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts

The translucent floppy creature was placed on the photo paper when printing this night picture.

“Net Prophet” fishing boat (view B)

1976

76H-30

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

This is one of my most popular images. I have several negatives taken from slightly different angles. I am told that the boat is no longer there.

“Herbie…A precious boy”

1977

77K-03

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Cahoon Hollow, Massachusetts.

Cahoon Hollow is a small town on the ocean side of the arm of Cape Cod.

Tulip tree leaves & raindrops, 160 Gray St.

1977

77M-34

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

This is another popular image and a first place winner in a nature photo contest sponsored by the Robert Floyd Gallery in Southampton.

Grayboy on patio – 160 Gray St.

1977

77N-08

Keywords: Animal, cat.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Grayboy, a cat, had some dog-like behaviors. He belonged to a neighbor across the street, but would regularly sashay over when I sat on our front porch, jump up on my lap, and enjoy (he and me) a good purr and pet.

Trees in winter mist behind 155 Gray St.

1977

77P-24

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

The backyard of my neighbors where Grayboy (77N-8) lived. The hemlocks at the bottom are now about 35 feet high.

Mint plants and wire fence, 160 Gray St.

1978

78A-03

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

This fence separated our backyard from the Regional High School. Later it was replaced with chain-link; then with solid wood.

Barn boards; hook and eye

1978

78B-02

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

On the Jekanowski Farm on Roosevelt Road where our kids picked cucumbers and tobacco.

Tent Caterpillar in nest

1978

78D-14

Keywords: Animal, caterpillar.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

At Amethyst Brook Conservation Area. I have often snapped insect-infested plants and bug-eaten leaves. This is a good one, I think.

In Fern Garden – 160 Gray St.

1978

78D-17

Keywords: Animal, toad.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

This toad lived near the mouth of a drain pipe for several years.

Wet with surf

1978

78E-18

Keywords: Beach, stones.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Stones and shells on the beach sometimes make pleasant images.

Moth on screen with holes

1978

78G-06

Keywords: Animal, moth.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

The small rented cabin belonged to a Zoology Department colleague, Carl Swanson. He called this cabin, “The Cell.” It was financed by his royalties on a textbook called “The Cell.”

“BABY”

1978

78G-25

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

I think the flowers are chicory, a nice blue color.

Cedar against Lumbert stone

1978

78H-20

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Trees and gravestones sometimes have a long life together and gradually shift positions.

“World’s Greatest Dad”

1978

78H-30

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Mashpee, Massachusetts.

Touching mementos at an Indian graveyard when a stone is too expensive.

“Remember” and “Thankful Jones”

1978

78H-37

Keywords: Gravestone, names.

Location: Marston Mills, Massachusetts.

Old New England names are mostly out of fashion; they would likely think that some of our modern names are odd.

Sarah Jenkins – “So be it”

1978

78I-01A

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Old New England gravestones sometimes have a short verse, but this one was even shorter.

“Freddie – Our Angel Boy”

1978

78I-18A

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Not far from the Sandwich Glass Museum.

“O! Death” with sad figure

1978

78I-29A

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Chilmark, Massachusetts.

Chilmark is on Martha’s Vineyard. See also 78I-31A.

“Reliance … A Hopeful Child”

1978

78I-31A

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Chilmark, Massachusetts.

Unfortunately hope died at age 12. See nearby stone in image 78I-29A.

Five Taylors in a row

1979

79D-19

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

For interesting images of graveyards, it is hard to beat this one near Montague center.

With pine limbs bending down

1979

79E-07

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

This shot seems to be the best of a half dozen similar images.

Thomas L. Butte/rfield

1979

79E-24

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

A surprising number of old New England gravestones have text that is weirdly split between lines. There are other examples in this collection.

“Tryphosa Gunn, a lovely child…”

1979

79E-26

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Gunn is a common name (but not Tryphosa) in Sunderland and Montague. I recently (2006) tried to find this stone for old times sake, but couldn’t locate it.

Shed skin of a boa constrictor

1980

80A-33A

Keywords: Animal, snake.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

For some years I had a pet boa. In my care, she grew from about a half inch in diameter to about four inches in diameter (and six feet long). She was very docile except when she was hungry, so I kept her well fed, mostly with mice.

Beech Fern at 160 Gray St.

1980

80B-20

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This fern (just a sprig or two) originally came from the side of Mt. Toby. It absolutely loves my back yard where I grow about 20 native fern species.

Tobacco leaves (Jekanowski farm)

1980

80F-22

Keywords: Plant, crop.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

As with several other images, this one stemmed from years when our kids picked cucumbers and tobacco. Although tobacco is still profitably grown in the Pioneer Valley (for cigar wrappers, I am told), cucumbers are grown less since a farmers’ cooperative (previously Oxford Pickle) closed its processing plant in South Deerfield.

Tobacco barn end on, Jekanowski farm

1980

80I-13

Keywords: Building, farm.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

This symmetry is striking in this very popular image.

Harvesting tobacco

1980

80I-23

Keywords: Plant, crop.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

My teenage son, Steven, at the Jekanowski Farm on Roosevelt Road. After a single axe cut, the stalks are spiked and hung upside down in barns for drying. This tobacco is used for cigars, I think.

Chopping tobacco with UMass beyond

1980

80I-29

Keywords: View, farm.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

The hard-working tobacco chopper is our son, Steven.

Grass weeds against clapboards

1981

81A-18

Keywords: Plant, grass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The building was the offices of the USDA on Triangle Street. The building is now doctors’ offices. A similar composition is 09C-27

Stones under large maple tree

1981

81F-10

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Cemetery Road in Hadley is one of our favorite views in the valley. Acres and acres of flat, fertile land west of the cemetery with the Berkshire foothills to the west and the Holyoke Range to the south gives us a thrill every time we go to Northampton. Some of the parcels are in danger of being developed and the Kestrel Trust is in the forefront of preservation efforts.

“Brand S” lumber, and mirrored image

1981

81F-27

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I think the workers who labeled this lumber inadvertently reversed the stencil – or maybe not. I have a large collection of whimsical signs. My policy is to avoid signs that are deliberately cute; this one is border-line.

Crabgrass in asphalt crack

1981

81F-29

Keywords: Plant, weed.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

In the parking lot behind the stores on Triangle Street. Crabgrass is very hardy.

Fine Arts Center, bike and reflecting pool

1981

81F-35

Keywords: Building, UMass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Some of my photography friends also have a picture like this. As some viewers know, the reflecting pool is gone. Too bad.

Unused Library with weeds

1981

81G-03

Keywords: Building, UMass

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

When the library bricks from high up were chipping off and threatening pedestrians below, the University put a fence around the base, but neglected to cut the weeds inside the fence for a long time. The day after I took this picture while wandering around, the weeds were cut. Your guess as to why is as good as mine.

“University Gallery”

1981

81G-04

Keywords: Sign, door.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Nice shadows; they have changed since the Fine Arts Center foyer has been built.

Fine Arts Center, reader on steps

1981

81G-07

Keywords: Pattern, steps.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The reader consented to having his pleasant day interrupted. I don’t know who he was.

Skid marks on high school lot

1981

81G-15

Keywords: Pattern, skids.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I used a ladder to get a better view of high school students “art” work.

“Samuel Phillips Porter” axed

1981

81G-25

Keywords: Gravestone, story.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Why would the family put this sentiment on a gravestone? This stone is no longer there. Where is it?

Three young Montague children

1981

81G-29

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

The Montague graveyard has a lot of photogenic images. (See also 79D-19 and 79E-07.)

“Daniel Marsh”

1981

81G-31

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Apparently hand-carved on a tight budget. When photographing gravestones I often use a door mirror mounted on a tripod so I can glance sunlight off the stone to better read the inscription. Note that the stone in the background has a dark side toward the viewer; the Marsh stone would too except for the mirror off the picture to the right.

Sarah Hopkins Williams

1981

81G-32

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

The previous and the next negative are also in this collection. A good photo day.

Chester Williams

1981

81G-33

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

An upstanding citizen.

Girl in UMass chain link maze

1981

81H-02

Keywords: Pattern, fence.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The maze no longer exists. It was fun but fell into disrepair. Its place has been taken by the astronomical Stonehenge-like array.

Amherst dog pound (since moved)

1981

81H-09

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

There was a dog there (just one), but it did not want its picture taken.

Gas pumps boarded up [now dental office]

1981

81I-12

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Since the 1960’s, an auto mechanic garage on this spot, and then just a gas station both folded. Funny, its location on Triangle Street with its traffic seems ideal. It is now a dental office. (Some viewers will know that there was plenty of opposition to the building of Triangle Street in the early 1800’s, and at night protestors would dig up what was put down during the day.)

“Emily Dickinson, Called Back”

1981

81I-16

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I have seen several versions of this difficult-to-take picture. (Check it out.) Mine is pretty good.

Library with student and swans

1981

81K-09

Keywords: Building, UMass

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

How’s this for a post card?

Fine Arts Center, strollers and dog

1981

81K-17

Keywords: Building, UMass

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

It’s too bad that the dog doesn’t look very dog-like.

Five school buses in a row – Junior High

Amherst, Massachusetts.

81L-30

Keywords: Vehicle, buses.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Buses line up at the (now) Amherst Middle School. When I look at this picture I always ask myself why it is “buses” rather than “busses.”

Post Office and Tax Collector

1982

82A-12

Keywords: Building, official.

Location: New Salem, Massachusetts.

This building is no longer there. The picture was taken a not long before sunset.

“Mary Ann” with fence and shadow

1982

82A-19

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: New Salem, Massachusetts.

Near the Post Office (82A-12) even closer to sunset. At last check, Mary Ann’s stone is still there.

Road to Greenwood Music Camp

1982

82B-04

Keywords: View, woods.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

This shot was used for the advertising poster for my first photo show, “Across the Valley; from Cummington to New Salem,” at the Burnett Gallery in 1983. The Burnett Gallery was relocated (to its current quarters) when the Jones Library addition was built in the early 1990’s.

Small stone embraced by tree trunk

1982

82B-08

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

It’s clear that both the stone and the tree have a long history in this spot.

Clapboards and window

1982

82B-30

Keywords: Buildingm run-down.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

I think the structure seen in the window is a bed. Note that you can see through the small house.

Large cut leaf beech, Main and Triangle

1982

82C-05

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The tree is still there and healthy (but needs trimming) just south of the Woman’s Club building.

“Tillson Farm Boiler Plant” – sort of

1982

82D-01

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I think this is a true whimsical sign in that it occurred without plan – the letters just fell off. Some viewers will know that the multi-million-dollar power plant never operated because it was incorrectly designed and/or constructed. It is still there (with its tall stack, 82D-14), although the oil tank (82D-11) for fuel storage has been dismantled.

Steps wrapped around oil tank, UMass

1982

82D-11

Keywords: Pattern, steps.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This tank was built for fuel for the faulty power plant (82D-01). I love the subtle shifting patterns of the steps and their shadows.

Smokestack on inoperable power plant

1982

82D-14

Keywords: Building, UMass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

An impressive symbol of things gone awry.

Marijuana in flagstone crack, UMass

1982

82F-09

Keywords: Plants, weeds.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

While wandering around campus I snapped this small marijuana plant in a flagstone crack at the campus center, most likely from a discarded butt. I spent a lot of time with composition. As with the weeds around the library (81G-03), the next day the plant was not there. I think a university employee saw me and thought I was about to write a newspaper expose of campus life.

Parking garage and smoke stacks

1982

82F-13

Keywords: Buildings, UMass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A big still life.

Goatsbeard under Elder Lumber

1982

82G-05

Keywords: Plant, flower.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A lovely flower in an inauspicious spot. All it takes sometimes is one flower to grace a scene.

Three Raggedy Anns in wagon

1982

82G-09

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts.

For what it’s worth, my mother (then age 81) really liked this picture. Since viewers filter images through their own unique experiences of a lifetime, it is often unpredictable what will appeal to different people.

Family of grotesques stuffed in silk

1982

82G-14

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts.

My friend, Alex Page (English Department), was taken with this and similar images of grotesques at the Old Deerfield Crafts Fair. He is a skilled humorist and I appreciate his support.

Windsor Dam

1982

82H-08

Keywords: Climate, fog.

Location: Quabbin, Massachusetts.

This image is one of my personal favorites and has long hung on my own wall. I have always printed it small – 5×7″ — although it is a very large object — a viewer takes it in all at once. And it reminds me of the personal sacrifices of many regular folk who were called on to relieve the thirst of faraway but powerful people.

Lion in window of Quincy Market store

1982

82I-10

Keywords: Arts, store.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

See my wife, Elaine, in the window?

Quincy Market band and strollers

1982

82I-19

Keywords: People, street.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Taken from a Faneuil Hall window.

Two Mary Persons stones

1982

82J-16

Keywords: Gravestones, names.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

Gravestones reveal that old New England families sometimes reused the name of a dead child.

Prize apples at Cummington Fair

1982

82K-05A

Keywords: Plant, fruit.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

We go to the Cummington Fair almost every year. It’s down-to-earth New England at its best.

Elijah Bordwell – thrown from horse

1982

82L-08

Keywords: Gravestone, story.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

Gravestones sometimes tell a story – not always a short story.

“Our birth is nothing”

1982

82L-10

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

I get a tear every time.

“ALMYS”

1982

82L-21

Keywords: Sign, run-down.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

The malls in Hadley passed through some tough times, and Almys didn’t last too long. Here it is defunct.

Pickle vat “379”

1982

82M-25

Keywords: Sign, number

Location: South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

This is one of hundreds (you see) of vats at the Oxford Pickle processing plant. Elaine and I wandered in, and, although we wondered whether we should be there, nobody stopped us. We climbed a ladder to view the cucumber contents and (we say) could have spat in the vat. After perhaps 15 minutes, someone politely suggested that we leave.

“MSC” banister ironwork, UMass

1983

83B-18

Keywords: Sign, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

That is, Massachusetts State College (one stage in University evolution) on the President’s hill path.

Carved “Lisa+Steve” Durfee beech tree

1983

83B-31

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This is one of many Girl + Boy signs in my collection.

Me taking a picture of a hornet’s nest

1983

83C-32

Keywords: Arthur, age 52.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

This picture was taken by my wife, Elaine, at Moore’s Corner. I think the building is the Leverett Historical Society.

Marble bank facade within museum

1983

83D-32

Keywords: Building, museum.

Location: New York, New York.

This bank, Branch of the United States Bank, stood on Wall Street, 1822-1824. The facade was preserved and reconstructed inside the museum in 1924. The roof latticework is seen from the outside in picture 83E-04.

Cleopatra and viewer – Metropolitan

1983

83D-36

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: New York, New York.

I have to go look at this statue every time we visit the MET, to see is anyone else is staring at Cleopatra’s breast.

Couple outside Metropolitan glass facade

1983

83E-04

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: New York, New York.

My hip young friends tell me that the Led Zeppellins are still in business.

Looking out my Aunt Nata’s window.

1983

83E-30

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

My aunt lived in an apartment at 72nd Street and 3rd Avenue. The view is northwest toward Central Park (unseen). The picture shows where people live, but no people are seen. The viewer can find four wooden water tanks, which are all over New York, even on top of the fanciest places.

Strollers and manikins, 3rd Avenue

1983

83E-34

Keywords: People, street.

Location: New York, New York.

We used to visit my Aunt Nata on the upper East Side once in a while. She had the world’s most uncomfortable pull-out sofa, probably to discourage visitors.

Gear & Flask, Museum of Modern Art

1983

83F-11

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: New York, New York.

I’d like to say this was a carefully arranged image, but, in fact, it just happened.

East 53rd with Citibank Building

1983

83F-15

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

I am reminded that my favorite painter, Edward Hopper, lived almost all his entire life in New York City and never painted a skyscraper (except maybe for the bottoms). He was into things horizontal.

“How do I love thee…”

1983

83F-22

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: New York, New York.

A vase in the window of the Steuben Glass store. It struck my funny bone that love was worth exactly $250.

Steuben kingfisher – 5th Avenue store

1983

83F-25

Keywords: Arts, store.

Location: New York, New York.

There is no more lighting here than the store arranged. They did a superb job.

Merry-go-round horses [circular]

1983

83H-08

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I have many times tried to get good images of carousel horses (which are often artful). This is the best I can do.

“Reserved for Masse’s Fish”

1983

83H-25

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This sign really struck my funny bone. The store is no longer there – it is now Bruegger’s Bagels. But Masse’s still has a store in Chicopee, and I occasionally see their truck in Amherst.

Ted Sargent’s dobros

1983

83K-06

Keywords: Arts, music.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

My colleague, Ted Sargent, is an internationally known lepidopterist, but also a musician, among yet other callings.

Pun buttons at Crafts Fair

1983

83P-17

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Lots of cute puns here; choose your favorite.

Emily Dickinson’s steps, Main St.

1983

83Q-09

Keywords: Pattern, steps.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

One of my popular images. The shadow is no longer there, being interrupted by the hemlock trees along the street. Come back when the hemlock trees get chopped down.

“Stop, Stop, Stop” – Laguardia Airport

1983

83Q-36

Keywords: Sign, command.

Location: New York, New York.

I like this three-level command. I have several different angles on them.

“STOP, STOP, STOP”

1983

83R-04

Keywords: Sign, command.

Location: New York, New York.

Three floors of exiting roundabouts in the parking garage at LaGuardia Airport.

Facade with broken windows

1983

83R-19

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Springfield, Massachusetts.

Taken from the platform of the Amtrak Station

Two Holsteins, Roaring Brook Rd.

1983

83S-17

Keywords: Animal, cows.

Location: Conway, Massachusetts.

Cows are traditional photo subjects and I’m not immune. See also 84B-08. Like tombstones, cows just stand there without waving in the breeze.

“Trespassing Forbidden” at State School

1983

83T-24

Keywords: Sign, command.

Location: Belchertown, Massachusetts.

The Belchertown State School had been closed for several years, its citizens dispersed, and its buildings quick to disintegrate.

Four Holsteins, South East St.

1984

84B-08

Keywords: Animal, cows.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This shot is near the confluence of Hop Brook and the Mill River (where beavers abound) near the bike path bridge over South East Street. This image was bought by a friend named Holstein.

Ted Sargent’s underwing moths

1984

84D-21

Keywords: Animal, moths.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This shot was for a moth book authored by my colleague, Ted Sargent.

Paige Library

1984

84E-08

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Hardwick, Massachusetts.

One of a lot of pictures of local libraries.

Memorial Library

1984

84E-11

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Petersham, Massachusetts.

One of a lot of pictures of local libraries.

Town Hall notices

1984

84E-14

Keywords: Sign, door.

Location: Petersham, Massachusetts.

A New England notice.

84G-26

1984

84G-26

Keywords: Sign, number.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

An historical photo from the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the predecessor of the University.

“Telephone” utility cover

1984

84G-35

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This struck my funny bone: for a very private conversation.

Political signs, UMass

1984

84H-01

Keywords: Sign, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Anything goes.

Starlings flying off Old Chapel

1984

84H-05

Keywords: Building, UMass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The old chapel has been often photographed. This is my contribution.

“Allow for expantion,” UMass

1984

84H-12

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I have become more tolerant of misspellings since this picture was taken; English is just a difficult language, period.

“MAC Light” utility cover

1984

84H-14

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Another historical photo.

Abandoned mall parking lot

1984

84I-13

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

I have several views of abandoned malls from Georgia to Massachusetts. This mall, “Mountain Farms,” (or just “the old mall”) has been reincarnated (including Whole Foods), but who knows what the next evolutionary phase will be.

“No bombs, I love earth” Ferraro rally

1984

84I-20

Keywords: Sign, command.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Geraldine Ferraro pulled a lot of votes in liberal Amherst.

Skyscraper bowl, Corning Glass Museum

1985

85B-21

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: Corning, New York.

Like the Steuben Kingfisher (83F-25), this shot is lit only by the museum’s (or store’s) lighting – very good.

With Travelers Insurance Building

1985

85E-18

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

My wife, Elaine, posed for this. It is unusual to find a graveyard on valuable real estate in the middle of downtown (but Boston does the same).

“Frances Howland, Well Done”

1985

85G-20

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

Picture taken in 1985. The stone was not present in 2010.

Joyce in glacial pothole

1985

85G-32

Keywords: Family, mine.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

Joyce is my niece – a schoolteacher in the Washington, D.C. area. The glacial potholes are now fenced off, I suppose for liability reasons, but it was really fun to once crawl over the area unhindered by thoughts of safety.

“Pratt Memorial Library”

1985

85H-12

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

I was interested in the fact that the Public Library in Baltimore (where our daughter works) is the Enoch Pratt Library. I think the two Pratts are not closely related.

Distilled water apparatus – behind Morrill

1985

85I-17

Keywords: Junk, still.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Junk is often photogenic. This is a real but worn out apparatus for making distilled water.

Various textbooks for sale by students

1985

85I-28

Keywords: Sign, ads.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Take your pick of cheaper textbooks.

Triple stone in sunspot

1985

85J-12

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Williamsburg, Massachusetts.

A gravestone in the spotlight.

Onsager and Kirkwood stones

1985

85K-12

Keywords: Gravestones, names.

Location: New Haven, Connecticut.

Yale professors. One man has his whole academic history inscribed. The other is content with “Nobel Laureate.”

Two children: drowning and bladder

1985

85K-15

Keywords: Gravestone, story.

Location: New Haven, Connecticut.

More stories of death.

Discarded Mahar seats behind power

1985

85K-27

Keywords: Junk, seats.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The non-working power plant is also the repository of non-working seats. It is curious that in the debris pile, rows A through D did not get separated too much.

“Boston 56″

1986

86G-17

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Barre, Massachusetts.

This directional sign is on the corner of the Town Hall.

“Town Clerk” etc.

1986

86G-19

Keywords: Sign, door.

Location: Barre, Massachusetts.

Taking care of the Town business.

“Remeber when – Levi & Pati”

1986

86J-05

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: West Point, New York.

Another Boy + Girl inscription, this one high over the Hudson River and too-hastily spelled out.

Urinals in Memorial Hall

1987

87C-28

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts.

All males are accommodated — tall, medium, short. I was taking a break (a friend calls this a biobreak) from the Deerfield Crafts Fair.

Rates for Chappaquiddick ferry

1987

87E-14

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Edgartown, Massachusetts.

What it costs for different creatures to take the ferry to Chappaquiddick Island.

Haydenville was named for Joel Hayden who owned and operated the Brassworks, which, along with most of town, was destroyed by the flood of 1874. Mr. Hayden, and his industrial colleagues also owned and operated the Williamsburg dam, a dozen miles upstream, which burst to cause the flood.

“Lot Manning was scolt to death”

1988

88D-01

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Ashby, Massachusetts.

Not a pleasant way to go.

“Twins”

1989

89A-17

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Orange, Massachusetts.

Touching.

“Robertson Library 1913″

1989

89B-05

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Leyden, Massachusetts.

A very small hilltop library. Leyden has about 800 inhabitants and, like most small towns in Massachusetts, has an open town meeting. It is near the New Hampshire border due north of Greenfield.

Peace Pagoda against stormy sky

1989

89C-24

Keywords: Building, church.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

We read later that there was a near tornado a few miles north of here in Gill which accounts for the dark sky.

M. N. Spear Memorial Library

1989

89F-12

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Shutesbury, Massachusetts.

This is among the world’s smallest libraries with books on every horizontal surface. Another such tiny library is the North Amherst Library.

Misspelled address labels

1990

90A-5

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Other people with names more complicated than Mange must have even larger collections of garbled address labels.

“Glovers Imperial Mange Medicine”

1990

90B-01

Keywords: Sign, bottle.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This bottle was given to us by a friend, but I later found the same bottle in a flea market in Leadville, Colorado.

Gargoyle with pipe, Merrick Library

1990

90C-37

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Brookfield, Massachusetts.

Seems to me like a very bad toothache.

Friend Barbara’s kitchen window

1990

90E-35

Keywords: Arts, home.

Location: Monson, Massachusetts.

I once complained to an artist friend that I didn’t much care for still lifes, but it seems that I do them myself.

Pine tree and leaning stones

1990

90F-08

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Monson, Massachusetts.

This photo appeared on the cover of a 2005 calendar published by the Association of Gravestone Studies based in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Icicles under ledge, Mt. Sugarloaf

1991

91I-16

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

One of several pictures of icicles and frozen surfaces of ponds and streams.

91I-16
Icicles under ledge, Mt. Sugarloaf
1991

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

One of several pictures of icicles and frozen surfaces of ponds and streams.

Boarded up with “Road Closed” sign

1991

91J-01

Keywords: Sign, window.

Location: Worcester, Massachusetts.

Is this true whimsy or manufactured cuteness?

Wm Burbank -“opened, bloomed & died”

1991

91J-21

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Suffield, Connecticut.

One of the better verses that adorn many old New England gravestones. (This graveyard is at the church next to Suffield Academy.)

Downtown from Georges Island

1991

91L-13

Keywords: View, harbor.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Georges Island in Boston Harbor is occupied almost entirely by a fort, built, perhaps, for the War of 1812. Like many East Coast forts, it never fired a shot at an enemy. It was used as a prison and hospital during the Civil War.

Public library

1991

91Q-07

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Easthampton, Massachusetts.

One library in my collection of dozens of local libraries.

“She came up like a flower and…”

1991

91Q-12

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Southampton, Massachusetts.

One in a large collection of gravestones marking childhood deaths.

Iron fence (with light from mirror)

1992

92E-13

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Southampton, Massachusetts.

Discerning viewers will see that the fence is lit from an angle different from the rest of the picture. I used a door mirror on a tripod set in the sun.

Bulletin board: astrology, etc.

1993

93A-08

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Buckland, Massachusetts.

This is on the side of a general store next to the much advertised Bridge of Flowers. Good ice cream.

Door at 24 1/2 Grove St., Beacon Hill

1994

94A-08

Keywords: Sign, number.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

The many “1/2″ addresses on Beacon Hill houses touched my sense of whimsy.

Brooklyn Bridge and skyline

1994

94L-35

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

I have seen better pictures of Brooklyn Bridge, and some not so good. This is mine, and includes the World Trade Towers.

World Trade Center Towers

1994

94M-34

Keywords: Building, city.

Location: New York, New York.

I stood on the plaza directly between the Towers and looked up. I like the way the south Tower is reflected on the side of the North Tower. All I knew at the time was that this would be a dramatic picture.

“Garbage” exhibit at NY Public Library

1995

95A-24

Keywords: Building, city.

Location: New York, New York.

Again, the “Garbage” at the New York Public Library seemed whimsical to me. The exhibit traced the history of garbage collection in the City, and was fascinating.

Solomon’s seal, New York Botanical Garden

1995

95C-13

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: New York, New York.

Gardeners, hie yourself to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx (by very convenient public transportation).

Raindrops on Alchemilla, lady’s mantle

1995

95C-23

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: New York, New York.

We had a light rain in the New York Botanical Garden. The leaves of this plant are hairy and famous for causing water drops to bead up.

Hosta, New York Botanical Garden

1995

95C-30

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: New York, New York.

It was sprinkling. We were prepared for that, but I lost my umbrella, somehow. So I now have a beautiful green umbrella which proclaims “The New York Botanical Garden.”

Cormorant on rock

1995

95G-02

Keywords: View, ocean.

Location: Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

We are lucky to have friends who actually live year-round a few hundred feet from where this picture was taken. A few hundred feet further is “Two Lights,” a scene that was painted several times by Edward Hopper (see 00D-32). Along this stretch of Maine coast, I have repeatedly tried to take wave pictures that might measure up to the paintings of Winslow Homer. I have never come close.

Boats and squiggly reflections

1995

95K-08

Keywords: View, harbor.

Location: Camde, Maine.

Our friends (see 95G-02) were negotiating here to buy a small boat (but did not). But we took a sailing ship tour of the harbor area. The breeze that day was very stiff and we hunkered down.

Salvage yard with dog statue & cherubs

1996

96H-01

Keywords: Arts, store.

Location: Newport, Rhode Island.

A salvage yard on the main street with innumerable statues to enhance your lawn. We have been tempted, but our lawn is still unadorned.

Around pink poles at Durfee Gardens

1996

96I-34

Keywords: Plant, vines.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Talking about putting your foot in your mouth: One day, when this garden was new, I meandered around. A man was raking smooth the gravel paths. I asked him the name of the flowers that graced a fence, and he told me (a Clematis species). Then I said that I loved the layout (and whimsical stone decorations), but was put off by the pink plastic-covered poles. He said, “That’s funny; I designed this garden.” So said Dean Cardasis of the Landscape Architecture Department (filling in for the maintenance person, who had broken his shoulder).

Weed & shadow & wall crack

1997

97M-05

Keywords: Plant, weed.

Location: Northport, New York

We are lucky to have relatives who live here in Northport, on the north shore of Long Island not far from the City. It is a lovely town both for people who make their living from the sea and for tourists.

“A pleasant plant…cut down…”

1997

97M-19

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Granby, Massachusetts.

One of several old New England gravestones with allusions to being a cut down in youth.

Vine in netting at Tower Hill

1997

97N-06

Keywords: Plant, leaf.

Location: Boylston, Massachusetts.

Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston (close to Worcester) is a delightful day’s outing from Amherst.

98C-22

1998

98C-22

Keywords: Plant, leaf.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Wandering around (again) in our backyard after a rain.

“Beth + Ed”

1999

99CC-33

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: Ware, Massachusetts.

Scratched in the plastic window on the observation landing of the tower at Quabbin Reservoir.

Contour ridges in Lawrence Swamp

2000

00B-35

Keywords: Pattern, ice.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This is a prize-winning photograph (“Nature in the Pioneer Valley;” Abstract” category) from the Robert Floyd Gallery in Southampton. The contour-like lines are from successive thawing and freezing of a puddle in Hop Brook, just south of Station Road.

Ice ridges with oak leaves

2000

00C-06

Keywords: Pattern, ice.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The ridges are likely formed by successive freezing and thawing. This area is along Hop Brook in Lawrence Swamp near Station Road.

Two Lights above rocky shore

2000

00D-32

Keywords: View, shore.

Location: Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

I have tried to capture what lighthouses are for – to keep ships away from the rocks.

Quilt: The thing about my mother

2000

00F-18

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Northfield, Vermont.

How could a whimsy-seeking observer not take this picture. The quote is from Calvin Trillen. We were here because Elaine’s sister-in-law is a master quilter from Macon, Georgia (with contributions to the Atlanta Olympics) who wanted to go to this quilt show.

Quilt: My grandmother’s walking

2000

00F-19

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Northfield, Vermont.

Again, how could I resist taking this picture. The quote is from Ellen DeGeneres.

First place in quilt show

2000

00F-21

Keywords: Arts, quilt.

Location: Northfield, Vermont.

This is a good place to say to my friends who inquire about why I don’t do color? The answer is that I find enough to do in black and white, and sometimes color is a distraction. Occasionally, I say to myself, wouldn’t this be a nice image in color, and I either take it anyway, or I don’t take it at all. I can say this would be a nice color picture. So be it.

Doll game, vendor, misspelling

2000

00N-09A

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

As I said before, I am less and less interested in misspellings. English is just difficult, and I am less interested in the mistakes.

“Dead End – Graves Ave.”

2001

01A-05

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

I had a large show at Cooley Dickinson Hospital of whimsical signs. I thought it was appropriately light. One of the doctor viewers said to me, “I have just the sign for you.” And here it is.

“A fun fact about germs”

2001

01A-36

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A concocted still life.

Cubist design with Elaine

2001

01M-26

Keywords: Arts, quilt.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

At the biennial “Hands Across the Valley Quilt Show” at Amherst College.

Duplex with matching flags (re 9/11)

2001

01GG-17

Keywords: Building, home.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

I wandered around Northampton soon after the World Trade Towers disaster. Whether this twin display was a response, I don’t know, but I am emotionally attached to this picture.

“No Problem” on heavy truck bumper

2001

01GG-22

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

Harold’s heavy-duty garage, next to the twin flag display in 01GG-17.

Bridge with graffiti and reflection

2001

01GG-33

Keywords: View, river.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

This is the Rail Trail bridge with a thoroughly confusing inscription. Your guess is as good as mine.

Margaret Bromfield stone

2001

01HH-15

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Brookfield, Massachusetts.

Like others in colonial America, she died of small pox (in 1761 at age 29).

“Eunice Hannum” (phonetical)

2001

01LL-07

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Belchertown, Massachusetts.

Trees and gravestones interact here.

Shagbark Hickory, Plum Brook

2001

01LL-15

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This was one of the first pictures I took with a new camera: Canon EOS Elan 7E, after my 20-year-old Olympus sort of gave out. What all those letters and numbers mean, is beyond me, but the standard 50-mm lens renders remarkably sharp pictures.

Pin oak at Plum Brook Conservation Area

2001

01LL-21

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This very full tree was next to the shagbark hickory (01LL-15). Check it out: a couple hundred yards north of Pomeroy Lane.

At this time (Summer 2006), Gallery A3 is about to open again, after being closed for a time. Check it out – at the new Amherst Cinema Arts Building.

“Park as straight as possible”

2002

02D-10

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Many pictures were taken to assemble part of a Burnett Gallery Committee Show. My contribution was entitled “Very Local Sights – Scenes Within 400 yards of Amherst Town Hall.” This image on Hallock Street was not used.

Sycamores on South Pleasant St.

2002

02E-15

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

These sycamore trees have been often photographed by myself and others. I have yet to get a really good image. This scene was also not used in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show.

Amity St., radiating siding

2002

02F-05

Keywords: Building, home.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This house with radiating clapboards was shown in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show.

Shutter latch & shadow – Jones Library

2002

02F-06

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This picture was also shown in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show and has proved to be a very popular image. Check it out yourself on the west side of the Library.

“Cupola Building” with cupola

2002

02F-14

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This building is the residence of Amherst Chinese Restaurant and appeared in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show.

“Cupola Building”

2002

02Y-02

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The cupola on the Cupola Building. The building houses the Amherst Chinese Restaurant.

Town Hall banister and shadow

2002

02Y-28

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This image was included in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show.

“Olivia and Eva were here”

2002

02BB-34

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Typed on an old typewriter outside the typewriter/computer shop on Pleasant Street.

Mt. Washington Hotel veranda

2002

02LL-04

Keywords: Pattern, banister.

Location: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

The Mt. Washington Hotel is huge and the expansive veranda completely surrounds the building for hundreds and hundreds of yards.

Bloodroot & shadow, 160 Gray St.

2003

03D-02

Keywords: Plant, flower.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I moved the rock a little to receive the whole shadow of the flower. Sorry.

Two pin oaks & UMass buildings

2003

03D-17

Keywords: Plant, trees.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Taken from the University of Massachusetts Farm off Roosevelt Road.

“God Bless America”

2003

03G-26

Keywords: Sign, patriotic.

Location: Westfield, Massachusetts.

I have a small collection of “God Bless America” signs. It is a popular sentiment.

“Town Tomb 1851″

2003

03H-26

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Fairly modest for a community burying place.

Roadside plant with disease patterns

2003

03T-02

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

This is probably a fungus infection, but the pattern is nice.

On stone wall in Wonalancet

2003

03T-19

Keywords: Plant, lichen.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

Our 39-year-old son had spent the night camping out alone on top of nearby Mt. Whiteface. It rained very hard, but he was well prepared, and did fine except for awkward positions needed to relieve himself. We had rented a cabin in the valley near the town of Tamworth, in the southern portion of the White Mountains.

Four-headed

2003

03T-29

Keywords: Plant, club moss.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

Various species of clubmoss have been favorite subjects.

Miner lesions on paired leaves

2003

03U-35

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

The plant was not too happy, but it makes a nice pattern.

White church at Wonalancet

2003

03V-30

Keywords: View, hills.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

Very New Englandish.

Flat on ground

2003

03W-12

Keywords: Plant, clubmoss.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

More clubmoss and other mosses. Our daughter and her partner pitched a tent for the night on this spot.

Three single spikes

2003

03W-19

Keywords: Plant, clubmoss.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

Yet more clubmoss.

Rundown fence near sunset

2003

03W-27

Keywords: Pattern, fence.

Location: Sandwich, New Hampshire.

While moseying around the Tamworth area. We chatted with the very pleasant, somewhat self-isolated owner of this property.

Workman cutting Katsura – Grace Church

2003

03Y-10

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

While taking this picture, an apparently shy woman approached me and asked if I thought the workmen would mind If she took a souvenir of this venerable tree. I said that they would probably be delighted if she took the whole thing. She settled for a branch.

Garlic?

2004

04F-23

Keywords: Plant, garden.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

During the Amherst History Museum annual garden tour – a garden on West Street.

Central Park trees and 5th Avenue buildings

2004

04H-02

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

This view is from the roof of the MET looking south. Although the tree canopy looks “natural” as opposed to the buildings, Central Park was completely man-made; everything was brought in from elsewhere.

Type faces, Chelsea Flea Market

2004

04H-17

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: New York, New York.

We were on an Elderhostel trip in New York City. This is a well-visited flea market on 7th Avenue.

Times Square

2004

04H-31

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

Taken from a bay window in the lobby area of the Marriot Hotel.

Trinity Church with Wall Street behind

2004

04J-13

Keywords: Building, landmark.

Location: New York, New York.

I spent a lot of time composing this shot of contrasting values. I’m glad that some detail was retained in the dark shadows of the Church. This day was the 200th anniversary of the death of Alexander Hamilton, who is buried here.

“Cost of coming to Minnesota”

2004

04L-24

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: New York, New York.

This is one of thousands of items in the Museum on Ellis Island. It was an emotional trip of discovery since we got the documents of the passage of Elaine’s mother who came through Ellis Island in 1923 from Christiania (now Oslo) to Iowa.

Street repairs near World Trade Center

2004

04L-31

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

The workmen informed us that some of these pipes were hundreds of year old. The complicated repairs were taking place nearly three years after the attack. Nearby restaurant owners told us that their businesses have never recovered.

“Cheesecakes” in Times Square

2004

04N-18

Keywords: Sign, window.

Location: New York, New York.

My wife was taking three children to a nearby theater matinee. I was given leave to mosey around Times Square. I loved it.

Hershey’s Building in Times Square

2004

04N-20

Keywords: Sign, ads.

Location: New York, New York.

Lots of signs.

“T’was brillig, and â€¦

2004

04Q-08

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: New York, New York.

One of many Lewis Carroll poems around the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park

Statuette at boathouse, Central Park

2004

04Q-13

Keywords: Arts, outside

Location: New York, New York.

The statue is about six inches in length.

Fancy banister in Brooklyn Heights

2004

04Q-34

Keywords: Pattern, banister.

Location: New York, New York.

Brooklyn Heights is an upscale area on the bluff that overlooks the East River and the skyline of Lower Manhattan. Here, George Washington lost the first of many Revolutionary War battles.

Brooklyn Bridge cables

2004

04R-03

Keywords: Pattern, bridge.

Location: New York, New York.

It doesn’t bother me that the Brooklyn Bridge (among other New York sights) is endlessly photographed. In this collection of photographs another one by me taken ten years previously and including the World Trade Center is 94L-35.

Condos

2004

04R-09

Keywords: Building, facade,

Location: New York, New York.

Near the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, which we had just walked across. Find the flag.

Photographer’s angle on Christo Gates

2005

05C-33

Keywords: People, one.

Location: New York, New York.

The Christo Gates brought to New York a sense of joy and community, and thousands of families strolled around leisurely. This photographer wanted the very best angle. I wonder whether she was satisfied.

Fire escape and clapboards

2005

05W-23

Keywords: Pattern, steps.

Location: New York, New York.

While moseying around the Bridge of Flowers and the Glacial Potholes areas.

First Prize squash at fair

2005

05W-32

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

The Cummington Fair is quintessential, small-town New England. My wife, Elaine, is overlooking the squash. I like the label made out of duct tape.

“Institute, The Hillside Ag’l Society…”

2005

05AA-04

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

Included at the Cummington Fair in an exhibit of local history.

05AA-19

2005

05AA-19

Keywords: View, sky.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

05AA-19

Smooth icicles at Gunn Brook Falls

2006

06C-11

Keywords: Climate, icicles.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

I’m with the professional naturalist and nature photographer, John Green, both of us bundled up against the cold. We photographed for several hours at the Falls.

John Green

2006

06D-12

Keywords: People, one.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

John is a naturalist and photographer. He is setting up equipment at the foot of Gunn Brook Falls in the winter time.

Bumpy icicles at Gunn Brook Falls

2006

06D-20

Keywords: Climate, icicles.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Why these icicles are bumpy while those in 06C-11 are smooth is a mystery.

Ice on pond with oak leaf

2006

06D-27

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

This pond is near Gunn Brook Falls.

Edge of Gunn Brook Falls

2006

06F-28

Keywords: View, waterfall.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Not winter-time, but a bright day with lots of spring flowers. My wife got a case of poison ivy on this stroll.

Morning web on bird feeder pole

2006

06J-02

Keywords: Animal, spider.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The dew does nice things to spider webs.

Ground spider in its matted lawn web

2006

06J-05

Keywords: Animal, spider.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Again, clinging dew highlights spider webs.

Shelf in Yiddish Book Center

2006

06J-17

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

We often take out-of-town guests to hear and see the story of the Yiddish Book Center.

Removing tornado debris

2006

06J-32

Keywords: People, one.

Location: Wendell, Massachusetts.

A number of tornadoes struck Wendell in July 2006. While we were curious, the afflicted were not thrilled with the damage or us.

Wendell Free Library entrance

2006

06J-33

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Wendell, Massachusetts.

Subsequent to this stop with visiting London friends, we got lost – going north rather than south. When we asked a Wendell State Forest ranger how best to get back to Amherst, he said, “By helicopter.”

Sunbathers at the Glacial Potholes

2006

06K-29

Keywords: People, two.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

Although there are plenty of signs warning people away from entering the Glacial Potholes area, some take the signs as a challenge.

Sojourner Truth and friends

2006

06K-33

Keywords: Family & friends, Elaine.

Location: Florence, Massachusetts.

Margaret from London (left) and my wife Elaine join with an oversized Sojourner Truth.

Tomatoes at Farmers’ Market

2006

06AA-09

Keywords: Plant, fruit.

Location: Brooklyn, New York.

This is downtown Brooklyn – Court Square – on a summer morning. The farmers’ market was joined with a publishers fair – about 50 book booths.

Door of defunct Montgomery Rose Company

2006

06BB-34

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

I’m not supposed to be roaming around these abandoned buildings, but nobody seemed to care. Oakland Raiders Football?

Gingko leaf fall

2006

06DD-20

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The bright yellow leaves of our front-yard gingko are falling. Quite amazingly, they all fall – every last one — in one morning.

Redbud leaves about to fall

2006

06DD-29

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This is a purple-leaved variety that does well on our front lawn.

American Elm

2006

06EE-14

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A fine, old, vase-like specimen on the East Amherst Common. I am testing out a new lens, a 100mm macro fixed-focal length.

Downtown sycamore branch

2006

06EE-21

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Three large sycamores grow across Pleasant street from the Town Common.

Pinocchio’s restaurant with glue patches?

2006

06EE-31

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A fire put Pinocchio’s out of business. I’m guessing that the name sign was covered up with a board, but the board fell off.

“We will worship at HIS Footstool”

2006

06EE-36

Keywords: Sign, window.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

In the entranceway of Grace Episcopal Church.

“FIRE ALARM ANNUNCIATOR”

2007

07A-01

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

I’m not sure what this annunciator at the Peabody Essex Museum actually does.

Chinese wall decoration. Peabody Essex Museum.

2007

07A-02

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

The Museum has a fine collection of East Asian art and maritime objects, many from the 1700’s when Salem was a major commercial port.

Our picnic table under 12 inches of snow

2007

07B-31

Keywords: Climate, winer.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

As photographers know, snow fools a camera’s light meter and manual adjustments must be made to render the snow white, rather than gray. Although that has been done here, the picture would have been improved by a little direct sunlight.

Bolts of quilt fabric for sale

2007

07D-12

Keywords: Arts, quilt.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This biennial show is always marvelous. Although all entries are accepted for exhibit, the show is better than many juried shows we have attended.

The featured quilt at “Hands Across the Valley”

2007

07D-14

Keywords: Arts, quilt.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A good question is whether this image shouldn’t really be in color. Perhaps. All the quilt pieces are light and dark shades of pea green.

Gingko shadow on sugar maple.

2007

07F-01

Keywords: Pattern, shadows.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

These trees are on our front lawn. The gingko’s shadow splits the sugar maple’s truck like a sundial or a botanical stonehenge.

Cut branch of a sugar maple

2007

07F-22

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The trunk of an ancient sugar maple. If you hold the picture upside-down the stump, amazingly, turns into a low table top.

Fly on end of cut log

2007

07F-35

Keywords: Animal, fly.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The pile of freshly cut logs was sitting next to the railroad tracks near Strong Street. The cut faces apparently oozed a sweet liquid that attracted flies, butterflies and other insects.

Charred doorframe with metal latch

2007

07G-02

Keywords: Pattern, wood.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

A burned out factory next to United Paper Box. Persons belonging to the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists had been invited to the functioning United Paper Box factory next door for a photo “shoot.” About ten of us roamed around inside and out.

“PICKLED EGGS” on broken bottle

2007

07G-11

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

“PICKLED EGGS” on broken bottle

Chain-link fence along the Third Level Canal

2007

07G-15

Keywords: Pattern, fence.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

This canal is separated from the Connecticut River by only one row of factories. It has about a 10-foot head, which, I am told, was sufficient to turn the water turbines in the old days.

“DO NOT HIT FENCE”

2007

07G-18

Keywords: Sign, warning.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Well, somebody did. The fence separates a byway from one of the canals that delivered water to turn turbines for power in the hundreds of old factories.

Ladder from street level to canal level

2007

07G-19

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

This concrete structure housed the intake sluice directing water from the Third Level Canal under the 19th-century factory that predated United Paper Box where it turned a water turbine.

Charred wood at burned-out factory

2007

07G-34

Keywords: Pattern, wood.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

See also comment for 07G-11. Middle Water Street parallels the Third Tier Canal, the lowest of the channels which take water from above the Holyoke Dam and eventually returns the water to the Connecticut River below the dam.

Vines and peeling paint on factory wall

2007

07G-36

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

On an unburned side of the otherwise burned out factory.

“Rafael”

2007

07H-10

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Inside United Paper Box. The bricks were laid in the 1850’s

Backup from beaver dams (with Maya)

2007

07I-22

Keywords: View, flooding.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Grandniece Maya plays while the grownups talk near the section of the Rail Trail is washed out from the flooding. If you’re thinking that the offending beavers should be captured and moved, my understanding is that Massachusetts has run out of places that could accept more beavers.

Branch and reflection in beaver backup

2007

07I-28

Keywords: Pattern, reflection.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The beaver flooding is good for birds, amphibians, and photographers.

Inflatable “USA”

2007

07Q-06

Keywords: Sign, patriotic.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Our neighbor on Gray Street has many inflatable lawn decorations for each of many holidays.

Coneflowers

2007

07R-16

Keywords: Plant, garden.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

These coneflowers in Elaine’s garden are on their last legs

Ghoulish figures

2007

07S-11

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: North Adams, Massachusetts.

The artist decorated the rear of an abandoned mall. I guess the artist’s name was SUN.

Eye-shaped light fixtures

2007

07S-16

Keywords: Arts. outside.

Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts.

This art piece is outside the Williams College Art Museum.

Ithamar Conkey House

2007

07T-05

Keywords: Building, historic.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The house was rehabilitated for offices in about 2000. It looked like a haunted house in 1975 (see 75K-37). Mr. Conkey was a leading citizen of Amherst, lawyer, state representative, founder of Amherst Savings Bank in 1864, and town meeting moderator for a record 26 years

Weathered plywood

2007

07T-34

Keywords: Pattern, wood.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A detail from an abandoned 4×8 piece next to the railroad tracks near Elder Lumber. Make of it what you will.

Rapids below Gunn Brook Falls

2008

08A-34

Keywords: View, stream.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

In this exposure (perhaps 1/15 second), each water droplet has travelled about 1/2 inch. Some viewers guess that it is a picture of fur.

Icicles under overhang

2008

08B-07

Keywords: Patern, ice.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Near Gunn Brook Falls. This is on a winter outing with John Green

Branch encrusted with ice

2008

08B-20

Keywords: Patern, ice.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Near Gunn Brook Falls.

More icicles

2008

08B-28

Keywords: Patern, ice.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

At the base of Gunn Brook Falls.

Yet more icicles

2008

08B-29

Keywords: Patern, ice.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

At the base of Gunn Brook Falls.

Message for photographers

2008

08B-34

Keywords: Sign, request.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

I have been known to move a label (only temporarily) to get a better shot perhaps, so I know what bothers the curators of the Smith College greenhouse.

Chandelier in State House

2008

08C-09

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Chandelier in State House

Dome window in State House

2008

08C-18

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

This is not the main dome seen from outside, but a subsidiary one. I am with a group from the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, who had just hung an extensive photo show in the offices of Senator Stan Rosenberg.

Ducks in a row

2008

08D-09

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

At a shooting gallery at the Amherst Town Fair. I am reminded of an in-law who says now and then, “You got your ducks in a row?”

Grass in turfstone

2008

08E-12

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: Beacon, New York.

Outside DIA:Beacon Contemporary Art Museum. So I never previously knew what turfstone was. Here it is.

Chimney and utility wires

2008

08E-18

Keywords: View, city.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

A group from the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists made a day-long outing to Turners Falls.

Chain link fence and shadow

2008

08E-31

Keywords: Pattern, fence.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

The fence is meant to keep people away from the crumbling building behind it.

Bob Hallock with view camera

2008

08F-23

Keywords: People, one.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

Professor Hallock is accompanied by his R2D2-like companion. He is taking a picture of the facade of the crumbling building in 08E-31.

High tension pole with insulators

2008

08G-02

Keywords: View, pole.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

The clouds look a little electrified.

Flags at Memorial Park

2008

08G-17

Keywords: Pattern, flags.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

A little south of the town center on Avenue A.

87 Fourth Street

2008

08G-20

Keywords: Building, facade.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

This scene is across the street from the stairway in 08G-21.

Porch banister with pot

2008

08G-21

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

The pot was there. I tried the scene with and without it. The picture is clearly better with the pot.

Bridge of Flowers

2008

08CC-05

Keywords: Building, bridge.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

The underside of the bridge with reflective shadows and a few pigeons. I am with a group from the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists.

Wooden Horse

2008

08DD-01

Keywords: Arts, outside.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

Near the Salmon Falls Gallery and showroom

Peeling paint

2008

08DD-04

Keywords: Pattern, old paint.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

On the side of an old railroad car at the Railroad Museum.

Weeds bent in breeze

2008

08DD-06

Keywords: Plants, grass.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

On railroad tracks. “Who has seen the wind/ Neither you nor I/ But when the trees bow down their heads/ The wind is passing by.” Christina Rossetti

Fire escape with shadows

2008

08DD-13

Keywords: Building, facade.

Location: Buckland, Massachusetts.

Sort of a standard shadow picture.

Street benches with shadows

2008

08DD-24

Keywords: Pattern, shadow.

Location: Buckland, Massachusetts.

The iron benches are not about to wear out.

Snowflakes – folded paper cutouts

2009

09A-09

Keywords: Arts, home.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I made these over several holiday seasons, and continue to make them when kids show up.

Ceramic “EVIDENCE”

2009

09A-34

Keywords: Arts, home.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The well-known artist is Francine Ozereko. The scrapings which made EVIDENCE evident are retained. The books are mine.

Pussy willow flowers

2009

09C-27

Keywords: Plant, garden.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The puffs are backed up by our house clapboards. A similar composition is 81A-18.

Maidenhair fern

2009

09C-35

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Springtime fiddleheads in our garden

4th of July decoration

2009

09K-15

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

This ribbon is on the North Hadley village hall. Old and new.

“Llama Poo”

2009

09K-29

Keywords: Signs, information.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The very best stuff, I guess, from a farm on North East Street.

Fence at the Emily Dickinson House

2010

10A-18

Keywords: Building, museum.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The fence is only a few weeks old in this picture. It goes on and on and on.

Entrance sign for the Marvell Cemetery

2010

10D-03

Keywords: Gravestones, view.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

This cemetery is carved out of the woods on Jackson Hill Road. The extent of the picket fence is seen in10D-06

Marvell Cemetery

2010

10D-06

Keywords: Gravestones, view.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

The fence is quite intricate. The spelling on the older stones is “Marvel” – with one “l.” Someone must have thought that two “l’s” were better.

Mary L. Marvel stone

2001

10D-14

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

In the Marvell Cemetery, but with one “l.” Her stone is surrounded by tall clover and other flowers.

“GEORGIE”

2010

10E-01

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

In the Jackson Hill Cemetery next to the Marvell Cemetery. The stone has a good growth of lichen. An angel appears to be carrying Georgie to heaven.

Cemetery with iron fence

2010

10E-16

Keywords: Gravestones, view.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

On Rattlesnake Gutter Road near the intersection with North Leverett Road.

Water surface

2010

10E-25

Keywords: Pattern, water.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

The water is flowing over a flat stone just under the surface (under Rattlesnake Gutter Road).

“The Mall at Moore’s Corner”

2010

10E-34

Keywords: Building, facade.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

The letter “Y” example 1

2010

10L-02

Keywords: Sign, letter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Our photo group, The Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, decided to compile the letters of the alphabet in nature. I got assigned “Y.” This example is the trunk of a yew (of course) bush across from the Emily Dickinson Museum. It is sort of an italic “Y.”

The letter “Y” example 2

2010

10L-22

Keywords: Sign, letter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Our photo group, The Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, decided to compile the letters of the alphabet in nature. I got assigned “Y.” This example is the cracks between flagstones in our yard. It is sort of a Roman “Y.”

The letter “Y” example 3

2010

10L-28

Keywords: Sign, letter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Our photo group, The Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, decided to compile the letters of the alphabet in nature. I got assigned “Y.” This example is our grand niece who got interested in what I was doing. (She is also in image 07I-22.)

Diadema Sherwood stone

2010

10M-17

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

In Locust Hill Cemetery. I liked the name and the lichen covered surface.

Enos Morton stones

2010

10M-27

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Shutesbury, Massachusetts.

In West Cemetery. The elder Enos Morton has reversed “N’s.”

Owen Fleischman stone

2010

10M-30

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase

Location: Shutesbury, Massachusetts.

In the Jewish Cemetery. Among the things he had to say (according to a Google reference) was the preface to a socialist songbook!

Joel Bent stone

2010

10N-05

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Wendell, Massachusetts.

In the Center Cemetery. A large number of stones in this cemetery have the same willow decoration, undoubtedly all done by the same stone cutter. The same willow branch and vase is on a stone in Sunderland (79E-24).

Beulah and Lucy Sweetser stones

2010

10N-12

In the Center Cemetery. Mother and daughter have the same “hair-raising” carving.

Joseph and Josepha Kilburn

2010

10N-14

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Wendell, Massachusetts.

In the Center Cemetery. The inscription suggests there might have been two Josephas, the first one (Joa.?) living just two weeks (and dying about 2 weeks after Joseph died, both in April 1790).

Louella stone

2010

10N-25

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: New Salem, Massachusetts.

Near sunset. The iron fence around the central cemetery is casting its shadow.

Three Seymour daughters

2010

10N-30

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Old Hadley Cemetery. All three were very young — a flower decoration for each.

UNKNOWN from the Conn. River

2010

10N-36

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Old Hadley Cemetery. The stone cutter (perhaps unpaid) was as brief as possible.

227 Bridge Street

2010

10P-02

Keywords: Building, facade.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

After tenants moved out, the owner of this building found a foul-smelling box, which, it was established, contained materials for making methamphetamine.

Withered vine

2010

10P-12

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

In back of the row of businesses on Main Street. Both the vine and the window bars are all worn out.

227 Bridge Street

2010

10P-19

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

The entryway to the “methamphetamine” house (10P-02) with arty mailboxes and a sign “ART ROCKZ.”

Sunflower

2010

10P-27

Keywords: Plant, flower.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

Pictured against a passing car. In front of the “methamphetamine” house (10P-02).

Arthur Mange joined the Zoology Department (later the Biology Department) at the University of Massachusetts from the Midwest in 1964. He taught primarily genetics and with his wife, Elaine, co-authored several award-winning college textbooks of human genetics. Following retirement in 1997, he served on a number of committees in Amherst, including chair of the Conservation Commission, and currently serves on the Committee for the Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library in Amherst. Mange is a member of the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, whose members are dedicated to fine art photography. This group maintains rotating exhibits at the Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Bay State Hospital in Springfield, and the Nashawannuck Gallery in Easthampton.

For over half a century, Mange has taken thousands of black and white photographs of varied subjects. The pictures are from many places around the world, with about half of them from New England and the East coast. Like many photographers, Mange tries to present interesting (if possible unusual or artful), real-life images with nice composition, form, texture, and resolution. They faithfully record things that have caught his eye along the way.

Mange has participated in a score of solo or group photo shows at hospitals, libraries, banks, and other sites in Amherst, Northampton, Pelham, Hadley, Leverett, and Southampton. The subject of these shows have included mysterious images including close-ups, gravestones, plants and animals, architecture, local sights, windows, pictures taken looking down, whimsical signs, and travel pictures.

Solo and Two-Person Shows

Across the Valley (from Cummington to New Salem), March 1983. Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library, Amherst.

Delight in Familiar Forms (celebrating some well-known plants and animals, October 1984. Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Amherst.

Guessing Game (Guess at the subject before looking at the label), June 2007. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Main Street, Florence.

Photographs of Norway from two trips: 1963 and 2008, March and April 2009. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Triangle Street, Amherst.

Gravestones and Memorials, September and October 2010. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Triangle Street, Amherst.

Contents of Collection

Arthur Mange’s collection of photographs consists of 339 images taken from 1965 to 2010. His subjects vary widely, from scenes around New England and New York City to scenes captured more locally from Amherst and Hadley to New Salem. Common themes include studies of nature, buildings, patterns, whimsical signs, attention-grabbing shadows, and gravestones.

Mange has used a number of single-lens reflex cameras over the years and 35-mm black and white film on multi-grade luster-surface RC papers, with hardly any alterations except cropping and burning some unwanted highlighted areas. As of 2011, Mange has approximately 35,000 35-mm negatives of his work; from these he has printed around 2,500.

Inventory of Collection

Snow on sumac, 43 Canton Ave.

1965

65A-08

Keywords:Climate; winter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

1964-1965 was our first winter in Amherst. It had been a lot colder and snowier in the upper Midwest from whence we came.

Yellow pond lily pinheads

1967

67G-05

Keywords: Plant, water.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

For five summers (1966-1970), we rented for several weeks a funky cottage on Stinson Lake in the White Mountains. Grandparents, parents, kids, and guests all slept on one screened porch.

“Ebenezer” and “Rachel Currier”

1967

67I-02

Keywords: Gravestone, names.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

This graveyard was not kept up at the time, but when we visited this spot in 2002, a local family had taken upon itself the task of cleaning it up and making it less photogenic.

Spinulose fern with shadows (view A)

1968

68C-20

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

The sun-dappled woods around Stinson Lake were a delight.

Worked wooden puzzle (reverse side)

1968

68E-31

Keywords: Pattern, puzzle.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

The deceased husband of the woman who rented us the Stinson Lake cottage had loved to make these intricate plywood jigsaw puzzles, which were available to renters. The puzzle is seen from the back side.

Elaine and kids framed by barn beams

1968

68G-20

Keywords: Family; Elaine, Jennifer, Steven, Paul.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

This shot at an abandoned barn is one of our favorite family pictures in which each person expresses his or her own personality: From the upper left, Jennifer is a bit bored; Steven ponders the meaning of life; Paul hams it up; Mother is very pleased.

Frog on boat gunnel [circular mask]

1968

68H-20A

Keywords: Animal, frog

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

This animal with the big round ear posed on a small pond above Stinson Lake. The boat just seemed to be there for general use. With me at the time was Stan Moss (Psychology Department) who was fishing from the shore.

Three moths on screen

1968

68P-14

Keywords: Animal, moth

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

On our rented cabin on the shores of Stinson Lake.

With lace curtain background

1968

68P-19

Keywords: Animal, spider.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

The spider is on the sill outside; the curtain is inside.

Spinulose with strong shadows

1968

68P-32

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

Finding a photogenic plant in the sun was always a special happening.

Red maple sapling

1968

68P-34

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

I couldn’t get enough of sunlight playing on the undergrowth.

Cinnamon fern with rain droplets

1969

69I-31A

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Stinson Lake, New Hampshire.

After a rain was always a favorite time to wander around.

Raindrops on Pond, Arrowhead

1973

73E-18A

Keywords: Pattern, cirlces.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Just as it started to rain in Arnold Arboretum.

Nasturtium with raindrop, 160 Gray St.

1973

73R-01

Keywords: Plant, grass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Gardeners know that nasturtium thrives on neglect – here in our front yard. Again, I am wandering around after a rain.

Bottle [1] at Sandwich Glass Museum

1973

73S-14

Keywords: Arts, musuem.

Location: Sandwich, Massachusettes.

This bottle of Sandwich Glass sat on a shelf against a window.

Bottle [2] at Sandwich Glass Museum

1973

73S-15

Keywords: Arts, musuem.

Location: Sandwich, Massachusettes.

As for 73S-14, this bottle was lit just by sunlight through the window.

Cattails along Tan Brook, near high school

1975

75A-13

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Tan Brook used to meander through the cow pasture where the Amherst Middle School now stands. The stream makes a 100-yard above- ground appearance behind the Regional High School. Then on Triangle Street there is a curious sign that says “Tan Brook,” which may or may not refer to a little ditch by the west side of the road.

Ithamar Conkey House, Main St. (view C)

1975

75K-37

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Mr. Conkey (1823-1875), a lawyer, was moderator of Amherst Town Meeting for a record-setting 26 years. He founded Amherst Savings Bank, and was active in the Ornamental Tree Association, which planted many trees on the Town Common. In 1975 the very large Victorian house was occupied by just one elderly woman. It is now spruced up and divided into offices.

Marginal shield fern & shadow

1975

75P-24

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Like the undergrowth at Stinson Lake, this fern occupied a small sunny spot in the woods. We were on a boat trip sponsored by Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Facility. Although I have been known to move a rock or bend a stem for photographic purposes, this scene is 100% natural.

Sun-slash in Gardner Museum

1976

76F-26

Keywords: Building, museum

Location:Boston, Massachusettes.

The woman seated on the upper floor is a nice point of interest.

“Charles Boatel” with plastic creature

1976

76H-21

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts

The translucent floppy creature was placed on the photo paper when printing this night picture.

“Net Prophet” fishing boat (view B)

1976

76H-30

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

This is one of my most popular images. I have several negatives taken from slightly different angles. I am told that the boat is no longer there.

“Herbie…A precious boy”

1977

77K-03

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Cahoon Hollow, Massachusetts.

Cahoon Hollow is a small town on the ocean side of the arm of Cape Cod.

Tulip tree leaves & raindrops, 160 Gray St.

1977

77M-34

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

This is another popular image and a first place winner in a nature photo contest sponsored by the Robert Floyd Gallery in Southampton.

Grayboy on patio – 160 Gray St.

1977

77N-08

Keywords: Animal, cat.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

Grayboy, a cat, had some dog-like behaviors. He belonged to a neighbor across the street, but would regularly sashay over when I sat on our front porch, jump up on my lap, and enjoy (he and me) a good purr and pet.

Trees in winter mist behind 155 Gray St.

1977

77P-24

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

The backyard of my neighbors where Grayboy (77N-8) lived. The hemlocks at the bottom are now about 35 feet high.

Mint plants and wire fence, 160 Gray St.

1978

78A-03

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

This fence separated our backyard from the Regional High School. Later it was replaced with chain-link; then with solid wood.

Barn boards; hook and eye

1978

78B-02

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

On the Jekanowski Farm on Roosevelt Road where our kids picked cucumbers and tobacco.

Tent Caterpillar in nest

1978

78D-14

Keywords: Animal, caterpillar.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

At Amethyst Brook Conservation Area. I have often snapped insect-infested plants and bug-eaten leaves. This is a good one, I think.

In Fern Garden – 160 Gray St.

1978

78D-17

Keywords: Animal, toad.

Location: Amherst, Massachusettes.

This toad lived near the mouth of a drain pipe for several years.

Wet with surf

1978

78E-18

Keywords: Beach, stones.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Stones and shells on the beach sometimes make pleasant images.

Moth on screen with holes

1978

78G-06

Keywords: Animal, moth.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

The small rented cabin belonged to a Zoology Department colleague, Carl Swanson. He called this cabin, “The Cell.” It was financed by his royalties on a textbook called “The Cell.”

“BABY”

1978

78G-25

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

I think the flowers are chicory, a nice blue color.

Cedar against Lumbert stone

1978

78H-20

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Trees and gravestones sometimes have a long life together and gradually shift positions.

“World’s Greatest Dad”

1978

78H-30

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Mashpee, Massachusetts.

Touching mementos at an Indian graveyard when a stone is too expensive.

“Remember” and “Thankful Jones”

1978

78H-37

Keywords: Gravestone, names.

Location: Marston Mills, Massachusetts.

Old New England names are mostly out of fashion; they would likely think that some of our modern names are odd.

Sarah Jenkins – “So be it”

1978

78I-01A

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Old New England gravestones sometimes have a short verse, but this one was even shorter.

“Freddie – Our Angel Boy”

1978

78I-18A

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Not far from the Sandwich Glass Museum.

“O! Death” with sad figure

1978

78I-29A

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Chilmark, Massachusetts.

Chilmark is on Martha’s Vineyard. See also 78I-31A.

“Reliance … A Hopeful Child”

1978

78I-31A

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Chilmark, Massachusetts.

Unfortunately hope died at age 12. See nearby stone in image 78I-29A.

Five Taylors in a row

1979

79D-19

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

For interesting images of graveyards, it is hard to beat this one near Montague center.

With pine limbs bending down

1979

79E-07

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

This shot seems to be the best of a half dozen similar images.

Thomas L. Butte/rfield

1979

79E-24

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

A surprising number of old New England gravestones have text that is weirdly split between lines. There are other examples in this collection.

“Tryphosa Gunn, a lovely child…”

1979

79E-26

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Gunn is a common name (but not Tryphosa) in Sunderland and Montague. I recently (2006) tried to find this stone for old times sake, but couldn’t locate it.

Shed skin of a boa constrictor

1980

80A-33A

Keywords: Animal, snake.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

For some years I had a pet boa. In my care, she grew from about a half inch in diameter to about four inches in diameter (and six feet long). She was very docile except when she was hungry, so I kept her well fed, mostly with mice.

Beech Fern at 160 Gray St.

1980

80B-20

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This fern (just a sprig or two) originally came from the side of Mt. Toby. It absolutely loves my back yard where I grow about 20 native fern species.

Tobacco leaves (Jekanowski farm)

1980

80F-22

Keywords: Plant, crop.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

As with several other images, this one stemmed from years when our kids picked cucumbers and tobacco. Although tobacco is still profitably grown in the Pioneer Valley (for cigar wrappers, I am told), cucumbers are grown less since a farmers’ cooperative (previously Oxford Pickle) closed its processing plant in South Deerfield.

Tobacco barn end on, Jekanowski farm

1980

80I-13

Keywords: Building, farm.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

This symmetry is striking in this very popular image.

Harvesting tobacco

1980

80I-23

Keywords: Plant, crop.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

My teenage son, Steven, at the Jekanowski Farm on Roosevelt Road. After a single axe cut, the stalks are spiked and hung upside down in barns for drying. This tobacco is used for cigars, I think.

Chopping tobacco with UMass beyond

1980

80I-29

Keywords: View, farm.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

The hard-working tobacco chopper is our son, Steven.

Grass weeds against clapboards

1981

81A-18

Keywords: Plant, grass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The building was the offices of the USDA on Triangle Street. The building is now doctors’ offices. A similar composition is 09C-27

Stones under large maple tree

1981

81F-10

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Cemetery Road in Hadley is one of our favorite views in the valley. Acres and acres of flat, fertile land west of the cemetery with the Berkshire foothills to the west and the Holyoke Range to the south gives us a thrill every time we go to Northampton. Some of the parcels are in danger of being developed and the Kestrel Trust is in the forefront of preservation efforts.

“Brand S” lumber, and mirrored image

1981

81F-27

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I think the workers who labeled this lumber inadvertently reversed the stencil – or maybe not. I have a large collection of whimsical signs. My policy is to avoid signs that are deliberately cute; this one is border-line.

Crabgrass in asphalt crack

1981

81F-29

Keywords: Plant, weed.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

In the parking lot behind the stores on Triangle Street. Crabgrass is very hardy.

Fine Arts Center, bike and reflecting pool

1981

81F-35

Keywords: Building, UMass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Some of my photography friends also have a picture like this. As some viewers know, the reflecting pool is gone. Too bad.

Unused Library with weeds

1981

81G-03

Keywords: Building, UMass

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

When the library bricks from high up were chipping off and threatening pedestrians below, the University put a fence around the base, but neglected to cut the weeds inside the fence for a long time. The day after I took this picture while wandering around, the weeds were cut. Your guess as to why is as good as mine.

“University Gallery”

1981

81G-04

Keywords: Sign, door.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Nice shadows; they have changed since the Fine Arts Center foyer has been built.

Fine Arts Center, reader on steps

1981

81G-07

Keywords: Pattern, steps.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The reader consented to having his pleasant day interrupted. I don’t know who he was.

Skid marks on high school lot

1981

81G-15

Keywords: Pattern, skids.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I used a ladder to get a better view of high school students “art” work.

“Samuel Phillips Porter” axed

1981

81G-25

Keywords: Gravestone, story.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Why would the family put this sentiment on a gravestone? This stone is no longer there. Where is it?

Three young Montague children

1981

81G-29

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

The Montague graveyard has a lot of photogenic images. (See also 79D-19 and 79E-07.)

“Daniel Marsh”

1981

81G-31

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Apparently hand-carved on a tight budget. When photographing gravestones I often use a door mirror mounted on a tripod so I can glance sunlight off the stone to better read the inscription. Note that the stone in the background has a dark side toward the viewer; the Marsh stone would too except for the mirror off the picture to the right.

Sarah Hopkins Williams

1981

81G-32

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

The previous and the next negative are also in this collection. A good photo day.

Chester Williams

1981

81G-33

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

An upstanding citizen.

Girl in UMass chain link maze

1981

81H-02

Keywords: Pattern, fence.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The maze no longer exists. It was fun but fell into disrepair. Its place has been taken by the astronomical Stonehenge-like array.

Amherst dog pound (since moved)

1981

81H-09

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

There was a dog there (just one), but it did not want its picture taken.

Gas pumps boarded up [now dental office]

1981

81I-12

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Since the 1960’s, an auto mechanic garage on this spot, and then just a gas station both folded. Funny, its location on Triangle Street with its traffic seems ideal. It is now a dental office. (Some viewers will know that there was plenty of opposition to the building of Triangle Street in the early 1800’s, and at night protestors would dig up what was put down during the day.)

“Emily Dickinson, Called Back”

1981

81I-16

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I have seen several versions of this difficult-to-take picture. (Check it out.) Mine is pretty good.

Library with student and swans

1981

81K-09

Keywords: Building, UMass

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

How’s this for a post card?

Fine Arts Center, strollers and dog

1981

81K-17

Keywords: Building, UMass

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

It’s too bad that the dog doesn’t look very dog-like.

Five school buses in a row – Junior High

Amherst, Massachusetts.

81L-30

Keywords: Vehicle, buses.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Buses line up at the (now) Amherst Middle School. When I look at this picture I always ask myself why it is “buses” rather than “busses.”

Post Office and Tax Collector

1982

82A-12

Keywords: Building, official.

Location: New Salem, Massachusetts.

This building is no longer there. The picture was taken a not long before sunset.

“Mary Ann” with fence and shadow

1982

82A-19

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: New Salem, Massachusetts.

Near the Post Office (82A-12) even closer to sunset. At last check, Mary Ann’s stone is still there.

Road to Greenwood Music Camp

1982

82B-04

Keywords: View, woods.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

This shot was used for the advertising poster for my first photo show, “Across the Valley; from Cummington to New Salem,” at the Burnett Gallery in 1983. The Burnett Gallery was relocated (to its current quarters) when the Jones Library addition was built in the early 1990’s.

Small stone embraced by tree trunk

1982

82B-08

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

It’s clear that both the stone and the tree have a long history in this spot.

Clapboards and window

1982

82B-30

Keywords: Buildingm run-down.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

I think the structure seen in the window is a bed. Note that you can see through the small house.

Large cut leaf beech, Main and Triangle

1982

82C-05

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The tree is still there and healthy (but needs trimming) just south of the Woman’s Club building.

“Tillson Farm Boiler Plant” – sort of

1982

82D-01

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I think this is a true whimsical sign in that it occurred without plan – the letters just fell off. Some viewers will know that the multi-million-dollar power plant never operated because it was incorrectly designed and/or constructed. It is still there (with its tall stack, 82D-14), although the oil tank (82D-11) for fuel storage has been dismantled.

Steps wrapped around oil tank, UMass

1982

82D-11

Keywords: Pattern, steps.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This tank was built for fuel for the faulty power plant (82D-01). I love the subtle shifting patterns of the steps and their shadows.

Smokestack on inoperable power plant

1982

82D-14

Keywords: Building, UMass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

An impressive symbol of things gone awry.

Marijuana in flagstone crack, UMass

1982

82F-09

Keywords: Plants, weeds.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

While wandering around campus I snapped this small marijuana plant in a flagstone crack at the campus center, most likely from a discarded butt. I spent a lot of time with composition. As with the weeds around the library (81G-03), the next day the plant was not there. I think a university employee saw me and thought I was about to write a newspaper expose of campus life.

Parking garage and smoke stacks

1982

82F-13

Keywords: Buildings, UMass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A big still life.

Goatsbeard under Elder Lumber

1982

82G-05

Keywords: Plant, flower.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A lovely flower in an inauspicious spot. All it takes sometimes is one flower to grace a scene.

Three Raggedy Anns in wagon

1982

82G-09

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts.

For what it’s worth, my mother (then age 81) really liked this picture. Since viewers filter images through their own unique experiences of a lifetime, it is often unpredictable what will appeal to different people.

Family of grotesques stuffed in silk

1982

82G-14

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts.

My friend, Alex Page (English Department), was taken with this and similar images of grotesques at the Old Deerfield Crafts Fair. He is a skilled humorist and I appreciate his support.

Windsor Dam

1982

82H-08

Keywords: Climate, fog.

Location: Quabbin, Massachusetts.

This image is one of my personal favorites and has long hung on my own wall. I have always printed it small – 5×7″ — although it is a very large object — a viewer takes it in all at once. And it reminds me of the personal sacrifices of many regular folk who were called on to relieve the thirst of faraway but powerful people.

Lion in window of Quincy Market store

1982

82I-10

Keywords: Arts, store.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

See my wife, Elaine, in the window?

Quincy Market band and strollers

1982

82I-19

Keywords: People, street.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Taken from a Faneuil Hall window.

Two Mary Persons stones

1982

82J-16

Keywords: Gravestones, names.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

Gravestones reveal that old New England families sometimes reused the name of a dead child.

Prize apples at Cummington Fair

1982

82K-05A

Keywords: Plant, fruit.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

We go to the Cummington Fair almost every year. It’s down-to-earth New England at its best.

Elijah Bordwell – thrown from horse

1982

82L-08

Keywords: Gravestone, story.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

Gravestones sometimes tell a story – not always a short story.

“Our birth is nothing”

1982

82L-10

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

I get a tear every time.

“ALMYS”

1982

82L-21

Keywords: Sign, run-down.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

The malls in Hadley passed through some tough times, and Almys didn’t last too long. Here it is defunct.

Pickle vat “379”

1982

82M-25

Keywords: Sign, number

Location: South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

This is one of hundreds (you see) of vats at the Oxford Pickle processing plant. Elaine and I wandered in, and, although we wondered whether we should be there, nobody stopped us. We climbed a ladder to view the cucumber contents and (we say) could have spat in the vat. After perhaps 15 minutes, someone politely suggested that we leave.

“MSC” banister ironwork, UMass

1983

83B-18

Keywords: Sign, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

That is, Massachusetts State College (one stage in University evolution) on the President’s hill path.

Carved “Lisa+Steve” Durfee beech tree

1983

83B-31

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This is one of many Girl + Boy signs in my collection.

Me taking a picture of a hornet’s nest

1983

83C-32

Keywords: Arthur, age 52.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

This picture was taken by my wife, Elaine, at Moore’s Corner. I think the building is the Leverett Historical Society.

Marble bank facade within museum

1983

83D-32

Keywords: Building, museum.

Location: New York, New York.

This bank, Branch of the United States Bank, stood on Wall Street, 1822-1824. The facade was preserved and reconstructed inside the museum in 1924. The roof latticework is seen from the outside in picture 83E-04.

Cleopatra and viewer – Metropolitan

1983

83D-36

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: New York, New York.

I have to go look at this statue every time we visit the MET, to see is anyone else is staring at Cleopatra’s breast.

Couple outside Metropolitan glass facade

1983

83E-04

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: New York, New York.

My hip young friends tell me that the Led Zeppellins are still in business.

Looking out my Aunt Nata’s window.

1983

83E-30

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

My aunt lived in an apartment at 72nd Street and 3rd Avenue. The view is northwest toward Central Park (unseen). The picture shows where people live, but no people are seen. The viewer can find four wooden water tanks, which are all over New York, even on top of the fanciest places.

Strollers and manikins, 3rd Avenue

1983

83E-34

Keywords: People, street.

Location: New York, New York.

We used to visit my Aunt Nata on the upper East Side once in a while. She had the world’s most uncomfortable pull-out sofa, probably to discourage visitors.

Gear & Flask, Museum of Modern Art

1983

83F-11

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: New York, New York.

I’d like to say this was a carefully arranged image, but, in fact, it just happened.

East 53rd with Citibank Building

1983

83F-15

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

I am reminded that my favorite painter, Edward Hopper, lived almost all his entire life in New York City and never painted a skyscraper (except maybe for the bottoms). He was into things horizontal.

“How do I love thee…”

1983

83F-22

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: New York, New York.

A vase in the window of the Steuben Glass store. It struck my funny bone that love was worth exactly $250.

Steuben kingfisher – 5th Avenue store

1983

83F-25

Keywords: Arts, store.

Location: New York, New York.

There is no more lighting here than the store arranged. They did a superb job.

Merry-go-round horses [circular]

1983

83H-08

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I have many times tried to get good images of carousel horses (which are often artful). This is the best I can do.

“Reserved for Masse’s Fish”

1983

83H-25

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This sign really struck my funny bone. The store is no longer there – it is now Bruegger’s Bagels. But Masse’s still has a store in Chicopee, and I occasionally see their truck in Amherst.

Ted Sargent’s dobros

1983

83K-06

Keywords: Arts, music.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

My colleague, Ted Sargent, is an internationally known lepidopterist, but also a musician, among yet other callings.

Pun buttons at Crafts Fair

1983

83P-17

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Lots of cute puns here; choose your favorite.

Emily Dickinson’s steps, Main St.

1983

83Q-09

Keywords: Pattern, steps.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

One of my popular images. The shadow is no longer there, being interrupted by the hemlock trees along the street. Come back when the hemlock trees get chopped down.

“Stop, Stop, Stop” – Laguardia Airport

1983

83Q-36

Keywords: Sign, command.

Location: New York, New York.

I like this three-level command. I have several different angles on them.

“STOP, STOP, STOP”

1983

83R-04

Keywords: Sign, command.

Location: New York, New York.

Three floors of exiting roundabouts in the parking garage at LaGuardia Airport.

Facade with broken windows

1983

83R-19

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Springfield, Massachusetts.

Taken from the platform of the Amtrak Station

Two Holsteins, Roaring Brook Rd.

1983

83S-17

Keywords: Animal, cows.

Location: Conway, Massachusetts.

Cows are traditional photo subjects and I’m not immune. See also 84B-08. Like tombstones, cows just stand there without waving in the breeze.

“Trespassing Forbidden” at State School

1983

83T-24

Keywords: Sign, command.

Location: Belchertown, Massachusetts.

The Belchertown State School had been closed for several years, its citizens dispersed, and its buildings quick to disintegrate.

Four Holsteins, South East St.

1984

84B-08

Keywords: Animal, cows.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This shot is near the confluence of Hop Brook and the Mill River (where beavers abound) near the bike path bridge over South East Street. This image was bought by a friend named Holstein.

Ted Sargent’s underwing moths

1984

84D-21

Keywords: Animal, moths.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This shot was for a moth book authored by my colleague, Ted Sargent.

Paige Library

1984

84E-08

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Hardwick, Massachusetts.

One of a lot of pictures of local libraries.

Memorial Library

1984

84E-11

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Petersham, Massachusetts.

One of a lot of pictures of local libraries.

Town Hall notices

1984

84E-14

Keywords: Sign, door.

Location: Petersham, Massachusetts.

A New England notice.

84G-26

1984

84G-26

Keywords: Sign, number.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

An historical photo from the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the predecessor of the University.

“Telephone” utility cover

1984

84G-35

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This struck my funny bone: for a very private conversation.

Political signs, UMass

1984

84H-01

Keywords: Sign, run-down.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Anything goes.

Starlings flying off Old Chapel

1984

84H-05

Keywords: Building, UMass.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The old chapel has been often photographed. This is my contribution.

“Allow for expantion,” UMass

1984

84H-12

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I have become more tolerant of misspellings since this picture was taken; English is just a difficult language, period.

“MAC Light” utility cover

1984

84H-14

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Another historical photo.

Abandoned mall parking lot

1984

84I-13

Keywords: Building, run-down.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

I have several views of abandoned malls from Georgia to Massachusetts. This mall, “Mountain Farms,” (or just “the old mall”) has been reincarnated (including Whole Foods), but who knows what the next evolutionary phase will be.

“No bombs, I love earth” Ferraro rally

1984

84I-20

Keywords: Sign, command.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Geraldine Ferraro pulled a lot of votes in liberal Amherst.

Skyscraper bowl, Corning Glass Museum

1985

85B-21

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: Corning, New York.

Like the Steuben Kingfisher (83F-25), this shot is lit only by the museum’s (or store’s) lighting – very good.

With Travelers Insurance Building

1985

85E-18

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

My wife, Elaine, posed for this. It is unusual to find a graveyard on valuable real estate in the middle of downtown (but Boston does the same).

“Frances Howland, Well Done”

1985

85G-20

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

Picture taken in 1985. The stone was not present in 2010.

Joyce in glacial pothole

1985

85G-32

Keywords: Family, mine.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

Joyce is my niece – a schoolteacher in the Washington, D.C. area. The glacial potholes are now fenced off, I suppose for liability reasons, but it was really fun to once crawl over the area unhindered by thoughts of safety.

“Pratt Memorial Library”

1985

85H-12

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

I was interested in the fact that the Public Library in Baltimore (where our daughter works) is the Enoch Pratt Library. I think the two Pratts are not closely related.

Distilled water apparatus – behind Morrill

1985

85I-17

Keywords: Junk, still.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Junk is often photogenic. This is a real but worn out apparatus for making distilled water.

Various textbooks for sale by students

1985

85I-28

Keywords: Sign, ads.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Take your pick of cheaper textbooks.

Triple stone in sunspot

1985

85J-12

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Williamsburg, Massachusetts.

A gravestone in the spotlight.

Onsager and Kirkwood stones

1985

85K-12

Keywords: Gravestones, names.

Location: New Haven, Connecticut.

Yale professors. One man has his whole academic history inscribed. The other is content with “Nobel Laureate.”

Two children: drowning and bladder

1985

85K-15

Keywords: Gravestone, story.

Location: New Haven, Connecticut.

More stories of death.

Discarded Mahar seats behind power

1985

85K-27

Keywords: Junk, seats.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The non-working power plant is also the repository of non-working seats. It is curious that in the debris pile, rows A through D did not get separated too much.

“Boston 56″

1986

86G-17

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Barre, Massachusetts.

This directional sign is on the corner of the Town Hall.

“Town Clerk” etc.

1986

86G-19

Keywords: Sign, door.

Location: Barre, Massachusetts.

Taking care of the Town business.

“Remeber when – Levi & Pati”

1986

86J-05

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: West Point, New York.

Another Boy + Girl inscription, this one high over the Hudson River and too-hastily spelled out.

Urinals in Memorial Hall

1987

87C-28

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Deerfield, Massachusetts.

All males are accommodated — tall, medium, short. I was taking a break (a friend calls this a biobreak) from the Deerfield Crafts Fair.

Rates for Chappaquiddick ferry

1987

87E-14

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Edgartown, Massachusetts.

What it costs for different creatures to take the ferry to Chappaquiddick Island.

Haydenville was named for Joel Hayden who owned and operated the Brassworks, which, along with most of town, was destroyed by the flood of 1874. Mr. Hayden, and his industrial colleagues also owned and operated the Williamsburg dam, a dozen miles upstream, which burst to cause the flood.

“Lot Manning was scolt to death”

1988

88D-01

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Ashby, Massachusetts.

Not a pleasant way to go.

“Twins”

1989

89A-17

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Orange, Massachusetts.

Touching.

“Robertson Library 1913″

1989

89B-05

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Leyden, Massachusetts.

A very small hilltop library. Leyden has about 800 inhabitants and, like most small towns in Massachusetts, has an open town meeting. It is near the New Hampshire border due north of Greenfield.

Peace Pagoda against stormy sky

1989

89C-24

Keywords: Building, church.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

We read later that there was a near tornado a few miles north of here in Gill which accounts for the dark sky.

M. N. Spear Memorial Library

1989

89F-12

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Shutesbury, Massachusetts.

This is among the world’s smallest libraries with books on every horizontal surface. Another such tiny library is the North Amherst Library.

Misspelled address labels

1990

90A-5

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Other people with names more complicated than Mange must have even larger collections of garbled address labels.

“Glovers Imperial Mange Medicine”

1990

90B-01

Keywords: Sign, bottle.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This bottle was given to us by a friend, but I later found the same bottle in a flea market in Leadville, Colorado.

Gargoyle with pipe, Merrick Library

1990

90C-37

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Brookfield, Massachusetts.

Seems to me like a very bad toothache.

Friend Barbara’s kitchen window

1990

90E-35

Keywords: Arts, home.

Location: Monson, Massachusetts.

I once complained to an artist friend that I didn’t much care for still lifes, but it seems that I do them myself.

Pine tree and leaning stones

1990

90F-08

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Monson, Massachusetts.

This photo appeared on the cover of a 2005 calendar published by the Association of Gravestone Studies based in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Icicles under ledge, Mt. Sugarloaf

1991

91I-16

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

One of several pictures of icicles and frozen surfaces of ponds and streams.

91I-16
Icicles under ledge, Mt. Sugarloaf
1991

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

One of several pictures of icicles and frozen surfaces of ponds and streams.

Boarded up with “Road Closed” sign

1991

91J-01

Keywords: Sign, window.

Location: Worcester, Massachusetts.

Is this true whimsy or manufactured cuteness?

Wm Burbank -“opened, bloomed & died”

1991

91J-21

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Suffield, Connecticut.

One of the better verses that adorn many old New England gravestones. (This graveyard is at the church next to Suffield Academy.)

Downtown from Georges Island

1991

91L-13

Keywords: View, harbor.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Georges Island in Boston Harbor is occupied almost entirely by a fort, built, perhaps, for the War of 1812. Like many East Coast forts, it never fired a shot at an enemy. It was used as a prison and hospital during the Civil War.

Public library

1991

91Q-07

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Easthampton, Massachusetts.

One library in my collection of dozens of local libraries.

“She came up like a flower and…”

1991

91Q-12

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Southampton, Massachusetts.

One in a large collection of gravestones marking childhood deaths.

Iron fence (with light from mirror)

1992

92E-13

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Southampton, Massachusetts.

Discerning viewers will see that the fence is lit from an angle different from the rest of the picture. I used a door mirror on a tripod set in the sun.

Bulletin board: astrology, etc.

1993

93A-08

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Buckland, Massachusetts.

This is on the side of a general store next to the much advertised Bridge of Flowers. Good ice cream.

Door at 24 1/2 Grove St., Beacon Hill

1994

94A-08

Keywords: Sign, number.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

The many “1/2″ addresses on Beacon Hill houses touched my sense of whimsy.

Brooklyn Bridge and skyline

1994

94L-35

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

I have seen better pictures of Brooklyn Bridge, and some not so good. This is mine, and includes the World Trade Towers.

World Trade Center Towers

1994

94M-34

Keywords: Building, city.

Location: New York, New York.

I stood on the plaza directly between the Towers and looked up. I like the way the south Tower is reflected on the side of the North Tower. All I knew at the time was that this would be a dramatic picture.

“Garbage” exhibit at NY Public Library

1995

95A-24

Keywords: Building, city.

Location: New York, New York.

Again, the “Garbage” at the New York Public Library seemed whimsical to me. The exhibit traced the history of garbage collection in the City, and was fascinating.

Solomon’s seal, New York Botanical Garden

1995

95C-13

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: New York, New York.

Gardeners, hie yourself to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx (by very convenient public transportation).

Raindrops on Alchemilla, lady’s mantle

1995

95C-23

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: New York, New York.

We had a light rain in the New York Botanical Garden. The leaves of this plant are hairy and famous for causing water drops to bead up.

Hosta, New York Botanical Garden

1995

95C-30

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: New York, New York.

It was sprinkling. We were prepared for that, but I lost my umbrella, somehow. So I now have a beautiful green umbrella which proclaims “The New York Botanical Garden.”

Cormorant on rock

1995

95G-02

Keywords: View, ocean.

Location: Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

We are lucky to have friends who actually live year-round a few hundred feet from where this picture was taken. A few hundred feet further is “Two Lights,” a scene that was painted several times by Edward Hopper (see 00D-32). Along this stretch of Maine coast, I have repeatedly tried to take wave pictures that might measure up to the paintings of Winslow Homer. I have never come close.

Boats and squiggly reflections

1995

95K-08

Keywords: View, harbor.

Location: Camde, Maine.

Our friends (see 95G-02) were negotiating here to buy a small boat (but did not). But we took a sailing ship tour of the harbor area. The breeze that day was very stiff and we hunkered down.

Salvage yard with dog statue & cherubs

1996

96H-01

Keywords: Arts, store.

Location: Newport, Rhode Island.

A salvage yard on the main street with innumerable statues to enhance your lawn. We have been tempted, but our lawn is still unadorned.

Around pink poles at Durfee Gardens

1996

96I-34

Keywords: Plant, vines.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Talking about putting your foot in your mouth: One day, when this garden was new, I meandered around. A man was raking smooth the gravel paths. I asked him the name of the flowers that graced a fence, and he told me (a Clematis species). Then I said that I loved the layout (and whimsical stone decorations), but was put off by the pink plastic-covered poles. He said, “That’s funny; I designed this garden.” So said Dean Cardasis of the Landscape Architecture Department (filling in for the maintenance person, who had broken his shoulder).

Weed & shadow & wall crack

1997

97M-05

Keywords: Plant, weed.

Location: Northport, New York

We are lucky to have relatives who live here in Northport, on the north shore of Long Island not far from the City. It is a lovely town both for people who make their living from the sea and for tourists.

“A pleasant plant…cut down…”

1997

97M-19

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Granby, Massachusetts.

One of several old New England gravestones with allusions to being a cut down in youth.

Vine in netting at Tower Hill

1997

97N-06

Keywords: Plant, leaf.

Location: Boylston, Massachusetts.

Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston (close to Worcester) is a delightful day’s outing from Amherst.

98C-22

1998

98C-22

Keywords: Plant, leaf.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Wandering around (again) in our backyard after a rain.

“Beth + Ed”

1999

99CC-33

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: Ware, Massachusetts.

Scratched in the plastic window on the observation landing of the tower at Quabbin Reservoir.

Contour ridges in Lawrence Swamp

2000

00B-35

Keywords: Pattern, ice.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This is a prize-winning photograph (“Nature in the Pioneer Valley;” Abstract” category) from the Robert Floyd Gallery in Southampton. The contour-like lines are from successive thawing and freezing of a puddle in Hop Brook, just south of Station Road.

Ice ridges with oak leaves

2000

00C-06

Keywords: Pattern, ice.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The ridges are likely formed by successive freezing and thawing. This area is along Hop Brook in Lawrence Swamp near Station Road.

Two Lights above rocky shore

2000

00D-32

Keywords: View, shore.

Location: Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

I have tried to capture what lighthouses are for – to keep ships away from the rocks.

Quilt: The thing about my mother

2000

00F-18

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Northfield, Vermont.

How could a whimsy-seeking observer not take this picture. The quote is from Calvin Trillen. We were here because Elaine’s sister-in-law is a master quilter from Macon, Georgia (with contributions to the Atlanta Olympics) who wanted to go to this quilt show.

Quilt: My grandmother’s walking

2000

00F-19

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Northfield, Vermont.

Again, how could I resist taking this picture. The quote is from Ellen DeGeneres.

First place in quilt show

2000

00F-21

Keywords: Arts, quilt.

Location: Northfield, Vermont.

This is a good place to say to my friends who inquire about why I don’t do color? The answer is that I find enough to do in black and white, and sometimes color is a distraction. Occasionally, I say to myself, wouldn’t this be a nice image in color, and I either take it anyway, or I don’t take it at all. I can say this would be a nice color picture. So be it.

Doll game, vendor, misspelling

2000

00N-09A

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

As I said before, I am less and less interested in misspellings. English is just difficult, and I am less interested in the mistakes.

“Dead End – Graves Ave.”

2001

01A-05

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

I had a large show at Cooley Dickinson Hospital of whimsical signs. I thought it was appropriately light. One of the doctor viewers said to me, “I have just the sign for you.” And here it is.

“A fun fact about germs”

2001

01A-36

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A concocted still life.

Cubist design with Elaine

2001

01M-26

Keywords: Arts, quilt.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

At the biennial “Hands Across the Valley Quilt Show” at Amherst College.

Duplex with matching flags (re 9/11)

2001

01GG-17

Keywords: Building, home.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

I wandered around Northampton soon after the World Trade Towers disaster. Whether this twin display was a response, I don’t know, but I am emotionally attached to this picture.

“No Problem” on heavy truck bumper

2001

01GG-22

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

Harold’s heavy-duty garage, next to the twin flag display in 01GG-17.

Bridge with graffiti and reflection

2001

01GG-33

Keywords: View, river.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

This is the Rail Trail bridge with a thoroughly confusing inscription. Your guess is as good as mine.

Margaret Bromfield stone

2001

01HH-15

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Brookfield, Massachusetts.

Like others in colonial America, she died of small pox (in 1761 at age 29).

“Eunice Hannum” (phonetical)

2001

01LL-07

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Belchertown, Massachusetts.

Trees and gravestones interact here.

Shagbark Hickory, Plum Brook

2001

01LL-15

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This was one of the first pictures I took with a new camera: Canon EOS Elan 7E, after my 20-year-old Olympus sort of gave out. What all those letters and numbers mean, is beyond me, but the standard 50-mm lens renders remarkably sharp pictures.

Pin oak at Plum Brook Conservation Area

2001

01LL-21

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This very full tree was next to the shagbark hickory (01LL-15). Check it out: a couple hundred yards north of Pomeroy Lane.

At this time (Summer 2006), Gallery A3 is about to open again, after being closed for a time. Check it out – at the new Amherst Cinema Arts Building.

“Park as straight as possible”

2002

02D-10

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Many pictures were taken to assemble part of a Burnett Gallery Committee Show. My contribution was entitled “Very Local Sights – Scenes Within 400 yards of Amherst Town Hall.” This image on Hallock Street was not used.

Sycamores on South Pleasant St.

2002

02E-15

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

These sycamore trees have been often photographed by myself and others. I have yet to get a really good image. This scene was also not used in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show.

Amity St., radiating siding

2002

02F-05

Keywords: Building, home.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This house with radiating clapboards was shown in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show.

Shutter latch & shadow – Jones Library

2002

02F-06

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This picture was also shown in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show and has proved to be a very popular image. Check it out yourself on the west side of the Library.

“Cupola Building” with cupola

2002

02F-14

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This building is the residence of Amherst Chinese Restaurant and appeared in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show.

“Cupola Building”

2002

02Y-02

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The cupola on the Cupola Building. The building houses the Amherst Chinese Restaurant.

Town Hall banister and shadow

2002

02Y-28

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This image was included in the Burnett Gallery Committee Show.

“Olivia and Eva were here”

2002

02BB-34

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Typed on an old typewriter outside the typewriter/computer shop on Pleasant Street.

Mt. Washington Hotel veranda

2002

02LL-04

Keywords: Pattern, banister.

Location: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

The Mt. Washington Hotel is huge and the expansive veranda completely surrounds the building for hundreds and hundreds of yards.

Bloodroot & shadow, 160 Gray St.

2003

03D-02

Keywords: Plant, flower.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I moved the rock a little to receive the whole shadow of the flower. Sorry.

Two pin oaks & UMass buildings

2003

03D-17

Keywords: Plant, trees.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Taken from the University of Massachusetts Farm off Roosevelt Road.

“God Bless America”

2003

03G-26

Keywords: Sign, patriotic.

Location: Westfield, Massachusetts.

I have a small collection of “God Bless America” signs. It is a popular sentiment.

“Town Tomb 1851″

2003

03H-26

Keywords: View, cemetary.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Fairly modest for a community burying place.

Roadside plant with disease patterns

2003

03T-02

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

This is probably a fungus infection, but the pattern is nice.

On stone wall in Wonalancet

2003

03T-19

Keywords: Plant, lichen.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

Our 39-year-old son had spent the night camping out alone on top of nearby Mt. Whiteface. It rained very hard, but he was well prepared, and did fine except for awkward positions needed to relieve himself. We had rented a cabin in the valley near the town of Tamworth, in the southern portion of the White Mountains.

Four-headed

2003

03T-29

Keywords: Plant, club moss.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

Various species of clubmoss have been favorite subjects.

Miner lesions on paired leaves

2003

03U-35

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

The plant was not too happy, but it makes a nice pattern.

White church at Wonalancet

2003

03V-30

Keywords: View, hills.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

Very New Englandish.

Flat on ground

2003

03W-12

Keywords: Plant, clubmoss.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

More clubmoss and other mosses. Our daughter and her partner pitched a tent for the night on this spot.

Three single spikes

2003

03W-19

Keywords: Plant, clubmoss.

Location: Tamworth, New Hampshire.

Yet more clubmoss.

Rundown fence near sunset

2003

03W-27

Keywords: Pattern, fence.

Location: Sandwich, New Hampshire.

While moseying around the Tamworth area. We chatted with the very pleasant, somewhat self-isolated owner of this property.

Workman cutting Katsura – Grace Church

2003

03Y-10

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

While taking this picture, an apparently shy woman approached me and asked if I thought the workmen would mind If she took a souvenir of this venerable tree. I said that they would probably be delighted if she took the whole thing. She settled for a branch.

Garlic?

2004

04F-23

Keywords: Plant, garden.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

During the Amherst History Museum annual garden tour – a garden on West Street.

Central Park trees and 5th Avenue buildings

2004

04H-02

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

This view is from the roof of the MET looking south. Although the tree canopy looks “natural” as opposed to the buildings, Central Park was completely man-made; everything was brought in from elsewhere.

Type faces, Chelsea Flea Market

2004

04H-17

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: New York, New York.

We were on an Elderhostel trip in New York City. This is a well-visited flea market on 7th Avenue.

Times Square

2004

04H-31

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

Taken from a bay window in the lobby area of the Marriot Hotel.

Trinity Church with Wall Street behind

2004

04J-13

Keywords: Building, landmark.

Location: New York, New York.

I spent a lot of time composing this shot of contrasting values. I’m glad that some detail was retained in the dark shadows of the Church. This day was the 200th anniversary of the death of Alexander Hamilton, who is buried here.

“Cost of coming to Minnesota”

2004

04L-24

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: New York, New York.

This is one of thousands of items in the Museum on Ellis Island. It was an emotional trip of discovery since we got the documents of the passage of Elaine’s mother who came through Ellis Island in 1923 from Christiania (now Oslo) to Iowa.

Street repairs near World Trade Center

2004

04L-31

Keywords: View, city.

Location: New York, New York.

The workmen informed us that some of these pipes were hundreds of year old. The complicated repairs were taking place nearly three years after the attack. Nearby restaurant owners told us that their businesses have never recovered.

“Cheesecakes” in Times Square

2004

04N-18

Keywords: Sign, window.

Location: New York, New York.

My wife was taking three children to a nearby theater matinee. I was given leave to mosey around Times Square. I loved it.

Hershey’s Building in Times Square

2004

04N-20

Keywords: Sign, ads.

Location: New York, New York.

Lots of signs.

“T’was brillig, and â€¦

2004

04Q-08

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: New York, New York.

One of many Lewis Carroll poems around the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park

Statuette at boathouse, Central Park

2004

04Q-13

Keywords: Arts, outside

Location: New York, New York.

The statue is about six inches in length.

Fancy banister in Brooklyn Heights

2004

04Q-34

Keywords: Pattern, banister.

Location: New York, New York.

Brooklyn Heights is an upscale area on the bluff that overlooks the East River and the skyline of Lower Manhattan. Here, George Washington lost the first of many Revolutionary War battles.

Brooklyn Bridge cables

2004

04R-03

Keywords: Pattern, bridge.

Location: New York, New York.

It doesn’t bother me that the Brooklyn Bridge (among other New York sights) is endlessly photographed. In this collection of photographs another one by me taken ten years previously and including the World Trade Center is 94L-35.

Condos

2004

04R-09

Keywords: Building, facade,

Location: New York, New York.

Near the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, which we had just walked across. Find the flag.

Photographer’s angle on Christo Gates

2005

05C-33

Keywords: People, one.

Location: New York, New York.

The Christo Gates brought to New York a sense of joy and community, and thousands of families strolled around leisurely. This photographer wanted the very best angle. I wonder whether she was satisfied.

Fire escape and clapboards

2005

05W-23

Keywords: Pattern, steps.

Location: New York, New York.

While moseying around the Bridge of Flowers and the Glacial Potholes areas.

First Prize squash at fair

2005

05W-32

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

The Cummington Fair is quintessential, small-town New England. My wife, Elaine, is overlooking the squash. I like the label made out of duct tape.

“Institute, The Hillside Ag’l Society…”

2005

05AA-04

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

Included at the Cummington Fair in an exhibit of local history.

05AA-19

2005

05AA-19

Keywords: View, sky.

Location: Cummington, Massachusetts.

05AA-19

Smooth icicles at Gunn Brook Falls

2006

06C-11

Keywords: Climate, icicles.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

I’m with the professional naturalist and nature photographer, John Green, both of us bundled up against the cold. We photographed for several hours at the Falls.

John Green

2006

06D-12

Keywords: People, one.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

John is a naturalist and photographer. He is setting up equipment at the foot of Gunn Brook Falls in the winter time.

Bumpy icicles at Gunn Brook Falls

2006

06D-20

Keywords: Climate, icicles.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Why these icicles are bumpy while those in 06C-11 are smooth is a mystery.

Ice on pond with oak leaf

2006

06D-27

Keywords: Climate, winter.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

This pond is near Gunn Brook Falls.

Edge of Gunn Brook Falls

2006

06F-28

Keywords: View, waterfall.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Not winter-time, but a bright day with lots of spring flowers. My wife got a case of poison ivy on this stroll.

Morning web on bird feeder pole

2006

06J-02

Keywords: Animal, spider.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The dew does nice things to spider webs.

Ground spider in its matted lawn web

2006

06J-05

Keywords: Animal, spider.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Again, clinging dew highlights spider webs.

Shelf in Yiddish Book Center

2006

06J-17

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

We often take out-of-town guests to hear and see the story of the Yiddish Book Center.

Removing tornado debris

2006

06J-32

Keywords: People, one.

Location: Wendell, Massachusetts.

A number of tornadoes struck Wendell in July 2006. While we were curious, the afflicted were not thrilled with the damage or us.

Wendell Free Library entrance

2006

06J-33

Keywords: Building, library.

Location: Wendell, Massachusetts.

Subsequent to this stop with visiting London friends, we got lost – going north rather than south. When we asked a Wendell State Forest ranger how best to get back to Amherst, he said, “By helicopter.”

Sunbathers at the Glacial Potholes

2006

06K-29

Keywords: People, two.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

Although there are plenty of signs warning people away from entering the Glacial Potholes area, some take the signs as a challenge.

Sojourner Truth and friends

2006

06K-33

Keywords: Family & friends, Elaine.

Location: Florence, Massachusetts.

Margaret from London (left) and my wife Elaine join with an oversized Sojourner Truth.

Tomatoes at Farmers’ Market

2006

06AA-09

Keywords: Plant, fruit.

Location: Brooklyn, New York.

This is downtown Brooklyn – Court Square – on a summer morning. The farmers’ market was joined with a publishers fair – about 50 book booths.

Door of defunct Montgomery Rose Company

2006

06BB-34

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

I’m not supposed to be roaming around these abandoned buildings, but nobody seemed to care. Oakland Raiders Football?

Gingko leaf fall

2006

06DD-20

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The bright yellow leaves of our front-yard gingko are falling. Quite amazingly, they all fall – every last one — in one morning.

Redbud leaves about to fall

2006

06DD-29

Keywords: Plant, leaves.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This is a purple-leaved variety that does well on our front lawn.

American Elm

2006

06EE-14

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A fine, old, vase-like specimen on the East Amherst Common. I am testing out a new lens, a 100mm macro fixed-focal length.

Downtown sycamore branch

2006

06EE-21

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Three large sycamores grow across Pleasant street from the Town Common.

Pinocchio’s restaurant with glue patches?

2006

06EE-31

Keywords: Sign, playful.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A fire put Pinocchio’s out of business. I’m guessing that the name sign was covered up with a board, but the board fell off.

“We will worship at HIS Footstool”

2006

06EE-36

Keywords: Sign, window.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

In the entranceway of Grace Episcopal Church.

“FIRE ALARM ANNUNCIATOR”

2007

07A-01

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

I’m not sure what this annunciator at the Peabody Essex Museum actually does.

Chinese wall decoration. Peabody Essex Museum.

2007

07A-02

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

The Museum has a fine collection of East Asian art and maritime objects, many from the 1700’s when Salem was a major commercial port.

Our picnic table under 12 inches of snow

2007

07B-31

Keywords: Climate, winer.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

As photographers know, snow fools a camera’s light meter and manual adjustments must be made to render the snow white, rather than gray. Although that has been done here, the picture would have been improved by a little direct sunlight.

Bolts of quilt fabric for sale

2007

07D-12

Keywords: Arts, quilt.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

This biennial show is always marvelous. Although all entries are accepted for exhibit, the show is better than many juried shows we have attended.

The featured quilt at “Hands Across the Valley”

2007

07D-14

Keywords: Arts, quilt.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A good question is whether this image shouldn’t really be in color. Perhaps. All the quilt pieces are light and dark shades of pea green.

Gingko shadow on sugar maple.

2007

07F-01

Keywords: Pattern, shadows.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

These trees are on our front lawn. The gingko’s shadow splits the sugar maple’s truck like a sundial or a botanical stonehenge.

Cut branch of a sugar maple

2007

07F-22

Keywords: Plant, tree.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The trunk of an ancient sugar maple. If you hold the picture upside-down the stump, amazingly, turns into a low table top.

Fly on end of cut log

2007

07F-35

Keywords: Animal, fly.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The pile of freshly cut logs was sitting next to the railroad tracks near Strong Street. The cut faces apparently oozed a sweet liquid that attracted flies, butterflies and other insects.

Charred doorframe with metal latch

2007

07G-02

Keywords: Pattern, wood.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

A burned out factory next to United Paper Box. Persons belonging to the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists had been invited to the functioning United Paper Box factory next door for a photo “shoot.” About ten of us roamed around inside and out.

“PICKLED EGGS” on broken bottle

2007

07G-11

Keywords: Sign, information.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

“PICKLED EGGS” on broken bottle

Chain-link fence along the Third Level Canal

2007

07G-15

Keywords: Pattern, fence.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

This canal is separated from the Connecticut River by only one row of factories. It has about a 10-foot head, which, I am told, was sufficient to turn the water turbines in the old days.

“DO NOT HIT FENCE”

2007

07G-18

Keywords: Sign, warning.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Well, somebody did. The fence separates a byway from one of the canals that delivered water to turn turbines for power in the hundreds of old factories.

Ladder from street level to canal level

2007

07G-19

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

This concrete structure housed the intake sluice directing water from the Third Level Canal under the 19th-century factory that predated United Paper Box where it turned a water turbine.

Charred wood at burned-out factory

2007

07G-34

Keywords: Pattern, wood.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

See also comment for 07G-11. Middle Water Street parallels the Third Tier Canal, the lowest of the channels which take water from above the Holyoke Dam and eventually returns the water to the Connecticut River below the dam.

Vines and peeling paint on factory wall

2007

07G-36

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

On an unburned side of the otherwise burned out factory.

“Rafael”

2007

07H-10

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Inside United Paper Box. The bricks were laid in the 1850’s

Backup from beaver dams (with Maya)

2007

07I-22

Keywords: View, flooding.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Grandniece Maya plays while the grownups talk near the section of the Rail Trail is washed out from the flooding. If you’re thinking that the offending beavers should be captured and moved, my understanding is that Massachusetts has run out of places that could accept more beavers.

Branch and reflection in beaver backup

2007

07I-28

Keywords: Pattern, reflection.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The beaver flooding is good for birds, amphibians, and photographers.

Inflatable “USA”

2007

07Q-06

Keywords: Sign, patriotic.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Our neighbor on Gray Street has many inflatable lawn decorations for each of many holidays.

Coneflowers

2007

07R-16

Keywords: Plant, garden.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

These coneflowers in Elaine’s garden are on their last legs

Ghoulish figures

2007

07S-11

Keywords: Sign, graffiti.

Location: North Adams, Massachusetts.

The artist decorated the rear of an abandoned mall. I guess the artist’s name was SUN.

Eye-shaped light fixtures

2007

07S-16

Keywords: Arts. outside.

Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts.

This art piece is outside the Williams College Art Museum.

Ithamar Conkey House

2007

07T-05

Keywords: Building, historic.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The house was rehabilitated for offices in about 2000. It looked like a haunted house in 1975 (see 75K-37). Mr. Conkey was a leading citizen of Amherst, lawyer, state representative, founder of Amherst Savings Bank in 1864, and town meeting moderator for a record 26 years

Weathered plywood

2007

07T-34

Keywords: Pattern, wood.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

A detail from an abandoned 4×8 piece next to the railroad tracks near Elder Lumber. Make of it what you will.

Rapids below Gunn Brook Falls

2008

08A-34

Keywords: View, stream.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

In this exposure (perhaps 1/15 second), each water droplet has travelled about 1/2 inch. Some viewers guess that it is a picture of fur.

Icicles under overhang

2008

08B-07

Keywords: Patern, ice.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Near Gunn Brook Falls. This is on a winter outing with John Green

Branch encrusted with ice

2008

08B-20

Keywords: Patern, ice.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Near Gunn Brook Falls.

More icicles

2008

08B-28

Keywords: Patern, ice.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

At the base of Gunn Brook Falls.

Yet more icicles

2008

08B-29

Keywords: Patern, ice.

Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts.

At the base of Gunn Brook Falls.

Message for photographers

2008

08B-34

Keywords: Sign, request.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

I have been known to move a label (only temporarily) to get a better shot perhaps, so I know what bothers the curators of the Smith College greenhouse.

Chandelier in State House

2008

08C-09

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Chandelier in State House

Dome window in State House

2008

08C-18

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

This is not the main dome seen from outside, but a subsidiary one. I am with a group from the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, who had just hung an extensive photo show in the offices of Senator Stan Rosenberg.

Ducks in a row

2008

08D-09

Keywords: Arts, fair.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

At a shooting gallery at the Amherst Town Fair. I am reminded of an in-law who says now and then, “You got your ducks in a row?”

Grass in turfstone

2008

08E-12

Keywords: Arts, museum.

Location: Beacon, New York.

Outside DIA:Beacon Contemporary Art Museum. So I never previously knew what turfstone was. Here it is.

Chimney and utility wires

2008

08E-18

Keywords: View, city.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

A group from the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists made a day-long outing to Turners Falls.

Chain link fence and shadow

2008

08E-31

Keywords: Pattern, fence.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

The fence is meant to keep people away from the crumbling building behind it.

Bob Hallock with view camera

2008

08F-23

Keywords: People, one.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

Professor Hallock is accompanied by his R2D2-like companion. He is taking a picture of the facade of the crumbling building in 08E-31.

High tension pole with insulators

2008

08G-02

Keywords: View, pole.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

The clouds look a little electrified.

Flags at Memorial Park

2008

08G-17

Keywords: Pattern, flags.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

A little south of the town center on Avenue A.

87 Fourth Street

2008

08G-20

Keywords: Building, facade.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

This scene is across the street from the stairway in 08G-21.

Porch banister with pot

2008

08G-21

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

The pot was there. I tried the scene with and without it. The picture is clearly better with the pot.

Bridge of Flowers

2008

08CC-05

Keywords: Building, bridge.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

The underside of the bridge with reflective shadows and a few pigeons. I am with a group from the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists.

Wooden Horse

2008

08DD-01

Keywords: Arts, outside.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

Near the Salmon Falls Gallery and showroom

Peeling paint

2008

08DD-04

Keywords: Pattern, old paint.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

On the side of an old railroad car at the Railroad Museum.

Weeds bent in breeze

2008

08DD-06

Keywords: Plants, grass.

Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

On railroad tracks. “Who has seen the wind/ Neither you nor I/ But when the trees bow down their heads/ The wind is passing by.” Christina Rossetti

Fire escape with shadows

2008

08DD-13

Keywords: Building, facade.

Location: Buckland, Massachusetts.

Sort of a standard shadow picture.

Street benches with shadows

2008

08DD-24

Keywords: Pattern, shadow.

Location: Buckland, Massachusetts.

The iron benches are not about to wear out.

Snowflakes – folded paper cutouts

2009

09A-09

Keywords: Arts, home.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

I made these over several holiday seasons, and continue to make them when kids show up.

Ceramic “EVIDENCE”

2009

09A-34

Keywords: Arts, home.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The well-known artist is Francine Ozereko. The scrapings which made EVIDENCE evident are retained. The books are mine.

Pussy willow flowers

2009

09C-27

Keywords: Plant, garden.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The puffs are backed up by our house clapboards. A similar composition is 81A-18.

Maidenhair fern

2009

09C-35

Keywords: Plant, fern.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Springtime fiddleheads in our garden

4th of July decoration

2009

09K-15

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

This ribbon is on the North Hadley village hall. Old and new.

“Llama Poo”

2009

09K-29

Keywords: Signs, information.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The very best stuff, I guess, from a farm on North East Street.

Fence at the Emily Dickinson House

2010

10A-18

Keywords: Building, museum.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

The fence is only a few weeks old in this picture. It goes on and on and on.

Entrance sign for the Marvell Cemetery

2010

10D-03

Keywords: Gravestones, view.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

This cemetery is carved out of the woods on Jackson Hill Road. The extent of the picket fence is seen in10D-06

Marvell Cemetery

2010

10D-06

Keywords: Gravestones, view.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

The fence is quite intricate. The spelling on the older stones is “Marvel” – with one “l.” Someone must have thought that two “l’s” were better.

Mary L. Marvel stone

2001

10D-14

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

In the Marvell Cemetery, but with one “l.” Her stone is surrounded by tall clover and other flowers.

“GEORGIE”

2010

10E-01

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

In the Jackson Hill Cemetery next to the Marvell Cemetery. The stone has a good growth of lichen. An angel appears to be carrying Georgie to heaven.

Cemetery with iron fence

2010

10E-16

Keywords: Gravestones, view.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

On Rattlesnake Gutter Road near the intersection with North Leverett Road.

Water surface

2010

10E-25

Keywords: Pattern, water.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

The water is flowing over a flat stone just under the surface (under Rattlesnake Gutter Road).

“The Mall at Moore’s Corner”

2010

10E-34

Keywords: Building, facade.

Location: Leverett, Massachusetts.

The letter “Y” example 1

2010

10L-02

Keywords: Sign, letter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Our photo group, The Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, decided to compile the letters of the alphabet in nature. I got assigned “Y.” This example is the trunk of a yew (of course) bush across from the Emily Dickinson Museum. It is sort of an italic “Y.”

The letter “Y” example 2

2010

10L-22

Keywords: Sign, letter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Our photo group, The Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, decided to compile the letters of the alphabet in nature. I got assigned “Y.” This example is the cracks between flagstones in our yard. It is sort of a Roman “Y.”

The letter “Y” example 3

2010

10L-28

Keywords: Sign, letter.

Location: Amherst, Massachusetts.

Our photo group, The Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, decided to compile the letters of the alphabet in nature. I got assigned “Y.” This example is our grand niece who got interested in what I was doing. (She is also in image 07I-22.)

Diadema Sherwood stone

2010

10M-17

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Montague, Massachusetts.

In Locust Hill Cemetery. I liked the name and the lichen covered surface.

Enos Morton stones

2010

10M-27

Keywords: Gravestone, name.

Location: Shutesbury, Massachusetts.

In West Cemetery. The elder Enos Morton has reversed “N’s.”

Owen Fleischman stone

2010

10M-30

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase

Location: Shutesbury, Massachusetts.

In the Jewish Cemetery. Among the things he had to say (according to a Google reference) was the preface to a socialist songbook!

Joel Bent stone

2010

10N-05

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Wendell, Massachusetts.

In the Center Cemetery. A large number of stones in this cemetery have the same willow decoration, undoubtedly all done by the same stone cutter. The same willow branch and vase is on a stone in Sunderland (79E-24).

Beulah and Lucy Sweetser stones

2010

10N-12

In the Center Cemetery. Mother and daughter have the same “hair-raising” carving.

Joseph and Josepha Kilburn

2010

10N-14

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Wendell, Massachusetts.

In the Center Cemetery. The inscription suggests there might have been two Josephas, the first one (Joa.?) living just two weeks (and dying about 2 weeks after Joseph died, both in April 1790).

Louella stone

2010

10N-25

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: New Salem, Massachusetts.

Near sunset. The iron fence around the central cemetery is casting its shadow.

Three Seymour daughters

2010

10N-30

Keywords: Gravestone, feature.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Old Hadley Cemetery. All three were very young — a flower decoration for each.

UNKNOWN from the Conn. River

2010

10N-36

Keywords: Gravestone, phrase.

Location: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Old Hadley Cemetery. The stone cutter (perhaps unpaid) was as brief as possible.

227 Bridge Street

2010

10P-02

Keywords: Building, facade.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

After tenants moved out, the owner of this building found a foul-smelling box, which, it was established, contained materials for making methamphetamine.

Withered vine

2010

10P-12

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

In back of the row of businesses on Main Street. Both the vine and the window bars are all worn out.

227 Bridge Street

2010

10P-19

Keywords: Building, detail.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

The entryway to the “methamphetamine” house (10P-02) with arty mailboxes and a sign “ART ROCKZ.”

Sunflower

2010

10P-27

Keywords: Plant, flower.

Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

Pictured against a passing car. In front of the “methamphetamine” house (10P-02).